Robert E. Scott

ROBERT E . GOLDSTEIN and STEPHEN E

lingual long-acting nitrates more prolonged than that achieved by nitroglycerin. It is likely that the duration of action of the sublingual nitrates is not as long as would be ideal, merely more prolonged than that achieved by nitroglycerin: a 1-21/2 hour duration of action seems most likely. Evidence that oral "long-acting nitrates" have a prolonged duration of action is, we agree, lacking. Al...

E . M . Scott ( ed ) , Modelling Radioactivity in the Environment

Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas, Jr.: Architect of Modern Macroeconomics

In 1995, Robert E. Lucas, Jr., was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. This review places Lucas’ work in a historical context and evaluates the effect of this work on the economics profession. Lucas’ central contribution is that he developed and applied economic theory to answer substantive questions in macroeconomics. Economists today routinely analyze systems in which agents operate...

Gustav E . Mueller Translated by Robert H . Weidman , ' 31

I I remember a picture in the air and sunlight style of painting of the nineteenth century. In the foreground was to be seen the back of a horse, the head of which the imagination had to add beyond the frame of the picture ; in the background shone colored splotches which 'one could identify as ladies and gentlemen under a tent . But all that was incidental . The main thing was the bright splot...

Robert E . Lucas , Jr . ’ s Collected Papers on Monetary Theory ∗

This paper is a critical review of and a reader’s guide to a collection of papers by Robert E. Lucas, Jr. about fruitful ways of using general equilibrium theories to understand measured economic aggregates. These beautifully written and wisely argued papers integrated macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance, and econometrics in ways that restructured big parts of macroeconomic research. 1 Arro...