Robert E. Lucas Jr.
Curriculum Vitae
| Born: | September 15, 1937, Yakima, Washington, USA |
| Address: | 460 West Barry Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657, USA |
| Education | |
| 1959 | University of Chicago, B.A., History |
| 1964 | University of Chicago, Ph.D., Economics |
| Fellowships and honors | |
| 1955-59 | Proctor and Gamble Scholarship |
| 1959-60 | Woodrow Wilson Fellowship |
| 1961-62 | Brookings Fellowship |
| 1963 | Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship |
| 1966-67 | Ford Foundation Faculty Fellowship |
| 1981-82 | Guggenheim Fellow |
| 1959 | Phi Beta Kappa |
| 1976 | Fellow, Econometric Society |
| 1980 | Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 1981 | Member, National Academy of Sciences |
| 1992 | Doctorat Honoris Causa, Universite Paris-Dauphine |
| 1994 | Doctorat Honoris Causa, Athens University of Economics and Business |
| 1995 | The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel |
| Employment | |
| 1962-63 | Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Chicago |
| 1963-67 | Assistant Professor of Economics, Carnegie Institute of Technology |
| 1967-70 | Associate Professor of Economics, Carnegie-Mellon University |
| 1970-74 | Professor of Economics, Carnegie-Mellon University |
| 1974-75 | Ford Foundation Visiting Research Professor of Economics, University of Chicago |
| 1975-80 | Professor of Economics, University of Chicago |
| 1981-82 | Visiting Professor of Economics, Northwestern |
| 1980- | John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago |
| Professional service | |
| 1975-83 | Vice-Chairman, Department of Economics, University of Chicago |
| 1986-88 | Chairman, Department of Economics, University of Chicago |
| 1972-78 | Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Theory |
| 1977- | Associate Editor, Journal of Monetary Economics |
| 1978-81/88 | Editor, Journal of Political Economy |
| 1979-82 | Member, Executive Committee, American Economic Association |
| 1982-84 | Member, Council, Econometric Society |
| 1987- | Vice-President, American Economic Association |
| 1991-95 | Member, Council, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 1995 | Second Vice-President, Econometric Society |
| Invited lectures | |
| 1980 | Marion O’Kellie McKay Lecture, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1980 | Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Lecture, Ohio State University |
| 1985 | Marshall Lectures, Cambridge, England |
| 1985 | David Horowitz Lectures, Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| 1985 | Yrjo Jahnsson Lectures, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1985 | W.A. Mackintosh Lecture, Queens University, Canada |
| 1986 | Carl Snyder Memorial Lecture, University of California at Santa Barbara |
| 1986 | Chung-Hua Lecture, Taipei, Republic of China |
| 1987 | Lionel McKenzie Lecture, University of Rochester |
| 1989 | Hicks Lecture, Oxford University |
| 1991 | Harry Johnson Lecturer, Royal Economic Society |
| 1991 | Fisher-Schultz Lecture, Econometric Society, Cambridge, England |
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