Lucas (1972) a personal view from the wrong side of the subsequent fifty years

David Laidler

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2024, vol. 31, issue 6, 1058-1076

Abstract: Lucas (1972) permanently changed the course of macroeconomics, even though his “money supply surprise” model lost its central place in the area within a decade because of empirical difficulties. However, Lucas’s novel methodology, based on clearing markets and rational expectations, still dominates orthodox macroeconomic theorising. An unfortunate side effect of this has been that, because mainstream models have no analytic room for money to play a key role in economic activity, the theoretical case for taking that role seriously was undermined just at the time when traditional monetarist macro-models were facing empirical problems, not least in policy applications. Some consequences for today’s monetary policy environment are briefly discussed.

Date: 2024
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