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Robert Lucas Jr.

1937 - 2023

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Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. (September 15, 1937 – May 15, 2023) was an American economist at the University of Chicago. Widely regarded as the central figure in the development of the new classical approach to macroeconomics, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1995 "for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy". N. Gregory Mankiw characterized him as "the most influential macroeconomist of the last quarter of the 20th century". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Lucas Jr. is the 23rd most popular economist (up from 91st in 2019), the 477th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,238th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Economist.

Robert Lucas Jr. is most famous for his work on the neoclassical model of economic growth.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Robert Lucas Jr. ranks 23 out of 414. Before him are John Law, Ludwig von Mises, W. Arthur Lewis, Klaus Schwab, William F. Sharpe, and Jan Tinbergen. After him are Ragnar Frisch, Paul Samuelson, Alexander Hamilton, Jean-Baptiste Say, Joseph Stiglitz, and Amartya Sen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Robert Lucas Jr. ranks 21. Before him are Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Queen Sonja of Norway, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Renzo Piano, and Robert Coleman Richardson. After him are Madeleine Albright, Vanessa Redgrave, Queen Paola of Belgium, Avram Hershko, Warren Beatty, and Joseph Estrada. Among people deceased in 2023, Robert Lucas Jr. ranks 20. Before him are Jane Birkin, Giorgio Napolitano, Michael Gambon, Sinéad O'Connor, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and Just Fontaine. After him are Harald zur Hausen, Ted Kaczynski, Fernando Botero, Louise Glück, Paul Berg, and Rosalynn Carter.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Lucas Jr. ranks 477 out of 20,380. Before him are Chris Cooper (1951), Norbert Wiener (1894), Jennifer Lopez (1969), Oliver Stone (1946), Frank Herbert (1920), and Sandra Bullock (1964). After him are Julia Roberts (1967), Edith Wilson (1872), Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), Sidney Poitier (1927), Paul Samuelson (1915), and J. J. Cale (1938).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Robert Lucas Jr. ranks 5. Before him are Herbert A. Simon (1916), Milton Friedman (1912), George Shultz (1920), and William F. Sharpe (1934). After him are Paul Samuelson (1915), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Charles Cooley (1864), Michael Porter (1947), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), and Edmund Phelps (1933).

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