Download or read book Collected Papers on Monetary Theory written by Robert E. Lucas, Jr. and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the outstanding monetary theorists of the past 100 years, Lucas revolutionized our understanding of how money interacts with the real economy of production, consumption, and exchange. These 21 papers, published 1972–2007, cover core monetary theory and public finance, asset pricing, and the real effects of monetary instability.