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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened
3to learn of the death of Robert E. Lucas Jr. of Chicago, who
4passed away on May 15, 2023 at 85 years old; and
 
5    WHEREAS, Robert Lucas was born to Jane (Templeton) Lucas
6and Robert Lucas Sr. in Yakima, Washington on September 15,
71937; he studied history as an undergraduate at the University
8of Chicago and then enrolled in a graduate history program at
9the University of California, Berkeley; he returned to the
10University of Chicago as a student under economist Milton
11Freidman, earning his doctorate in economics in 1964; and
 
12    WHEREAS, Robert Lucas married fellow University of Chicago
13student Rita Cohen in 1959, and they later separated in 1982;
14his later-life partner was Professor Nancy L. Stokey, with
15whom he collaborated on some of his research at the University
16of Chicago; and
 
17    WHEREAS, Robert Lucas taught at what is now Carnegie
18Mellon University from 1963 through 1974; he then returned to
19the University of Chicago in 1975, where he remained as a
20professor emeritus until his death; and
 
21    WHEREAS, Robert Lucas won the Nobel Memorial Prize in

 

 

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1Economic Sciences in 1995 for his work on "rational
2expectations"; he challenged economist John Maynard Keynes's
3ideas of supporting government intervention by insisting that
4people have rational expectations from past experiences to
5undermine interventionist policies; and
 
6    WHEREAS, Robert Lucas embraced supply-side economics and
7argued for increasing the supply of goods and cutting taxes
8for job growth; he was described as the economist who had had
9the greatest influence on macroeconomic research since 1970 by
10the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences; and
 
11    WHEREAS, Robert Lucas is survived by his sons, Stephen and
12Joseph; his partner, Nancy L. Stokey; his sister, Jenepher
13Spurr; his brother, Peter; and five grandchildren; therefore,
14be it
 
15    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL
16ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of
17Robert E. Lucas Jr. and extend our sincere condolences to his
18family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it
19further
 
20    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
21presented to the family of Robert Lucas as an expression of our
22deepest sympathy.