Introduction to the Mini-Symposium on Lucas’s 1972 ‘Expectations and the Neutrality of Money’ in Historical Perspective

ABSTRACT

This is the general introduction to a mini-symposium on Lucas’ (1972) ‘Expectations and the neutrality of money’ in historical perspective. Upon discussing some of the main features of Lucas’ seminal and controversial article, this introduction sums up the main points of the four papers contributed to the mini-symposium.

KEYWORDS:

• Lucas
• expectations
• monetary neutrality
• historical perspective

JEL CODES:

• B22
• E32

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).