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Lucasian
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English
Etymology
From en Lucas ian.
Pronunciation
en /luːˈkeɪziən/
Adjective
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en economics Of or pertaining to American economist Robert Lucas Jr.
en 1982 Frank Hahn Monetary and Inflation Basil Blackwell Oxford 35 Lucas is the intellectual leader of this approach, which I shall refer to as Lucasian.
en 2020 Francesco Sergi The Standard Narrative about DSGE Models in Central Banks’ Technical Reports The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 27 163-193 Since alternative [microfoundational] programs are not addressed here, I will simply use the word “microfoundations” instead of “Lucasian microfoundations” or “representative agent microfoundations”.
en mathematics Of or pertaining to Henry Lucas (c. 1610–1663), Member of Parliament for Cambridge University and founder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics.
en In 1979, Stephen Hawking became the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, one of Britain’s most distinguished chairs, and one formerly held by Isaac Newton.
en rare Of or pertaining to the American filmmaker George Lucas, known for his blockbuster space opera films.
en 2002 Heather B. Armstrong Things I Learned about My Dad He was looking down at our seven-pound lump of innocence, his mind unblemished by Lucasian mythology. "Can you believe he doesn't know about Star Wars yet?"
en 2013 Joel Black The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative In the Lucasian spectacle of carefully programmed digitalized effects, as little as possible is left to chance, to the contingencies of real life, and to the vagaries and verities of the recorded image.
Translations
pertaining to Henry Lucas
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 盧卡斯的 Lúkǎsī de
Finnish: fi Lucas Lucas-
Portuguese: pt lucasiano
Noun
en economics A follower of the theories of American economist Robert Lucas Jr.
en 1982 Frank Hahn Monetary and Inflation Basil Blackwell Oxford x In this, I have probably devoted too much attention to the economists whom I label Lucasians […]
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