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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 Prize in Economics 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". He was characterized by N. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Lucas Jr. has received more than 417,363 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Robert Lucas Jr. is the 65th most popular economist (up from 70th in 2019), the 871st most popular biography from United States (up from 931st in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Economist.

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

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  • 63.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Robert Lucas Jr. ranks 65 out of 315. Before him are Bertil Ohlin, Robert Solow, Theodore Schultz, William Stanley Jevons, Oliver E. Williamson, and Henry Mintzberg. After him are Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Jacques Delors, James Mill, Wang Anshi, James Tobin, and Reinhard Selten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Robert Lucas Jr. ranks 38. Before him are Bill Cosby, Alain Badiou, David Hockney, Gordon Banks, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, and Avram Hershko. After him are Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Colleen McCullough, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Claude Lelouch, Juvénal Habyarimana, and Andrei Konchalovsky. Among people deceased in 2023, Robert Lucas Jr. ranks 30. Before him are Carlos Saura, Raquel Welch, Ryan O'Neal, Harry Belafonte, Robert Solow, and Alan Arkin. After him are Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Ferid Murad, Jacques Delors, K. Alex Müller, Tony Bennett, and Mohamed Al-Fayed.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Lucas Jr. ranks 871 out of 18,182. Before him are Linda Hamilton (1956), Linda Hunt (1945), Karl Malden (1912), Irwin Rose (1926), Norman Rockwell (1894), and William Kemmler (1860). After him are Mel Brooks (1926), Solomon Northup (1808), Jack Palance (1919), Lex Barker (1919), Mae West (1893), and Glenn T. Seaborg (1912).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Robert Lucas Jr. ranks 16. Before him are Kenneth Arrow (1921), W. Edwards Deming (1900), Irving Fisher (1867), Robert Solow (1924), Theodore Schultz (1902), and Oliver E. Williamson (1932). After him are James Tobin (1918), James M. Buchanan (1919), Murray Rothbard (1926), Charles Cooley (1864), Richard Thaler (1945), and Harry Markowitz (1927).

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