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Lucasian

/luːˈkeɪziən/

Lucasian adjective: of or pertaining to American economist Robert Lucas Jr.

Adjective

Lucasian (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to American economist Robert Lucas Jr.
    • Lucas is the intellectual leader of this approach, which I shall refer to as Lucasian.1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page 35
    • Since alternative [microfoundational] programs are not addressed here, I will simply use the word “microfoundations” instead of “Lucasian microfoundations” or “representative agent microfoundations”.2020, Francesco Sergi, “The Standard Narrative about DSGE Models in Central Banks’ Technical Reports”, in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, number 27, pages 163-193
  2. Of or pertaining to Henry Lucas (c. 1610–1663), Member of Parliament for Cambridge University and founder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics.
    • 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.
  3. (rare) Of or pertaining to the American filmmaker George Lucas, known for his blockbuster space opera films.
    • 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?"2002, Heather B. Armstrong, Things I Learned about My Dad
    • 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.2013, Joel Black, The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative

Noun

Lucasian (plural Lucasians)

  1. A follower of the theories of American economist Robert Lucas Jr.
    • In this, I have probably devoted too much attention to the economists whom I label Lucasians […]1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page x

Forms of Lucasian

pluralLucasians

Origin of Lucasian

From Lucas + -ian.

Questions about Lucasian

What does Lucasian mean?
Lucasian means of or pertaining to American economist Robert Lucas Jr.
What part of speech is Lucasian?
Lucasian can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce Lucasian?
Lucasian is pronounced /luːˈkeɪziən/.

Words near Lucasian in the dictionary

  1. Lucas-Lehmer-Riesel test
  2. Lucas-Penrose argument
  3. Lucased
  4. Lucases
  5. Lucasesque
  6. Lucasian
  7. Lucasians
  8. Lucasing
  9. Lucaston
  10. Lucatero
  11. Lucateros

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