Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Robert Lucas, Jr.

Born: September 15, 1937
Died: May 15, 2023 (aged 85)
Bio: Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr. was an American economist at the University of Chicago. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1995.
Known for:
- Studies in business-cycle theory (1981)
- Lectures on economic growth (2002)
- Models of business cycles (1987)
- Collected Papers on Monetary Theory (2012)
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