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An agenda without a plan: Robert E Lucas’s trajectory through the public debate (2019)
Journal Article
Goutsmedt, A., Guizzo, D., & Sergi, F. (2019). An agenda without a plan: Robert E Lucas’s trajectory through the public debate

This article explores Robert E. Lucas’s policy agenda and his engagement with the public debate between the late 1960s and late 1980s. It investigates how he interacted with the public debate by envisioning key principles of his macroeconomic theory... Read More about An agenda without a plan: Robert E Lucas’s trajectory through the public debate.

Reacting to the Lucas critique: The Keynesians’ replies (2019)
Journal Article
Goutsmedt, A., Pinzón-Fuchs, E., Renault, M., & Sergi, F. (2019). Reacting to the Lucas critique: The Keynesians’ replies. History of Political Economy, 51(3), 535-556. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-7551912

In 1976, Robert Lucas explicitly criticized Keynesian macroeconometric models for their inability to correctly predict the effects of alternative economic policies. Today, most contemporary macroeconomists and some historians of economics consider th... Read More about Reacting to the Lucas critique: The Keynesians’ replies.