A look at how Nobel Prize winning American economist Robert Lucas changed the field of macroeconomics. He died this week at 85. The world of economics lost a major force this week. Nobel Prize ...

For the Senate, this includes deciding whether or not to confirm Judy Shelton as a Governor of the Board ... list is the University of Chicago’s Robert Lucas. Lucas is one of the seven Prize ...

Robert E. Lucas Jr. was a longtime economics professor at the University of Chicago who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1995 based on his theory that challenged and ...

By Sam Roberts Robert E. Lucas Jr., a contrarian Nobel laureate in economics who undergirded conservative arguments that government intervention in fiscal policy is often self-defeating ...

A theme of my blog, as of my book "A Failure of Capitalism: The crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression," which gives its name to the blog, is the failure of economists to anticipate or even ...

Economics is full of equations named after their inventor. Robert Lucas, who died on May 15th aged 85, was different. His name graces something edgier: a “critique”. When he presented an early ...

Robert Lucas, who won a Nobel Prize for his path-breaking work on rational expectations that questioned the efficacy of government intervention in the economy, has died. He was 85. His death was ...