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October 17, 2016
2016 Simpson Lecture: Robert Lucas on the Industrial Revolution
The 2016 Simpson Lecture was by Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas, Jr., the John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Chicago. Lucas won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1995 for developing and applying the theory of rational expectations.
Lucas' lecture was titled “What Was the Industrial Revolution.”