What is Robert Lucas Jr.?
{{Infobox economist | name = Robert Lucas Jr. | birth_name = Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. | school_tradition = [[New classical macroeconomics]] | image = La Revolución Industrial Pasado y Futuro, Robert E. Lucas Jr. screenshot (cropped).jpg | image_size = 230px | caption = Lucas giving a lecture at The Industrial Revolution: Past and Future in 1996 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|9|15|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Yakima, Washington]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=y|2023|5|15|1937|9|15}} | death_place = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], U.S. | nationality = American | institution = [[Carnegie Mellon University]]<br>[[University of Chicago]] | field = [[Macroeconomics]] | alma_mater = [[University of Chicago]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}}<br>[[University of California, Berkeley]] | doctoral_advisor = [[H. Gregg Lewis]]<br>[[Dale W. Jorgenson]] | doctoral_students= [[Marcel Boyer]]<br>[[Costas Azariadis]]<br>[[Jean-Pierre Danthine]]<br>[[Boyan Jovanovic]]<br>[[Paul Romer]] | contributions = [[Rational expectations]]<br>[[Lucas critique]]<br>[[Behavioral economics]] | awards = [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (1995) | signature = <!-- file name only --> | repec_prefix = e | repec_id = plu15 }} {{nobelprize|Economics}}'''Robert Emerson Lucas Jr.''' (September 15, 1937 &ndash; May 15, 2023) was an American [[economist]] at the [[University of Chicago]]. He was the John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics and the College. He was a known figure in the creation of [[New classical macroeconomics|new classical approach to macroeconomics]],<ref>{{cite book |first1=Brian |last1=Snowdon |first2=Howard R. |last2=Vane |title=Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origin, Development and Current State |location=Cheltenham |publisher=Edgar Elgar |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-84542-208-0 |pages=220–223 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2OEPPVsI