Robert Lucas

Quick Facts

Full Name	Robert Lucas
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Jul 25, 1962(1962-07-25)
Age	62
Date Of Death	November 23, 2008, Long Beach, CA
Birthplace	Long Beach
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Leo

Robert Lucas Biography

Robert Lucas is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on July 25, 1962 in Long Beach, California, United States.

Lucas came from a middle-class family, and grew up in Long Beach, California. He took up harmonica at the age of 13. At around 16 he started playing slide- guitar. While at school in the 1970s, he wasn’t into the pop music of the day. He preferred the older blues records.

Lucas joined Bernie Pearl’s band as a harmonica player after taking lessons from him. Some of the artists that he backed up as a harmonica player included Big Joe Turner, George Smith, Pee Wee Creighton, Lowell Fulson, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson and Percy Mayfield. In 1986 he formed the band Luke & the Locomotives. In 1993, he was one of the acts scheduled to play at the Orange County Blues Festival. In 1992, he played shows in the UK in support of his Audioquest album Built For Comfort. His backing musicians were: Rick Lacey (drums), Gary Burnett (guitar) and Ian Edmundson (bass). In 1994 he joined Canned Heat and fronted the band. He played on their 1999 album Boogie 2000. In 2000, he left the band for a solo career.

Robert Lucas Net Worth

Robert Lucas is one of the richest Economist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert Lucas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Robert Lucas (July 25, 1962 – November 23, 2008) was an American blues musician, singer, guitarist and harmonica player, who became the front man for the group Canned Heat in the mid 1990s and was also a solo artist.

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Facts & Trivia

Roman Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Robert Lucas celebrates birthday on July 25 of every year.

What did Robert Lucas do?

Lucas (1978) solved the first model of asset pricing in a general equilibrium with rational expectations. This work is one of the most influential in financial economics and has become the starting point for a whole new literature that tries to integrate financial economics and macroeconomics.

What is the Lucas critique and why was it so important to macroeconomists

in the 1970s?

The Lucas critique, named for American economist Robert Lucas’s work on macroeconomic policymaking, argues that it is naive to try to predict the effects of a change in economic policy entirely on the basis of relationships observed in historical data, especially highly aggregated historical data.

Who was Robert Lucas Jr?

Lucas, Jr., in full Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr., (born Sept. 15, 1937, Yakima, Wash., U.S.), American economist who won the 1995 Nobel Prize for Economics for developing and applying the theory of rational expectations, an econometric hypothesis.

When was Robert Lucas born?

September 15, 1937 (age 84 years)

Who is the father of economics?

Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher. He is considered the father of modern economics.