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Robert E. Lucas Jr.'s Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

1995 Economic Sciences

Born September 15, 1937

Died May 15, 2023

The Humanitarian Builder

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In the record

Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. (September 15, 1937 – May 15, 2023) was an American economist at the University of Chicago. The birth-card coordinate for September 15 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1995 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

1995 — The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

“for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy”

Prize motivation, NobelPrize.org

No one else in this set holds the 1995 Economic Sciences prize; Robert E. Lucas Jr. appears here as its sole listed laureate. The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1.

93 other Economic Sciences laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Robert E. Lucas Jr.'s birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Robert E. Lucas Jr.. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

Live 9 of Clubs meaning page

Robert E. Lucas Jr. in the public record

Widely regarded as the central figure in the development of the new classical approach to macroeconomics, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1995 "for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy". N. Gregory Mankiw characterized him as "the most influential macroeconomist of the last quarter of the 20th century". In 2020, he ranked as the 10th most cited economist in the world. Lucas was born on September 15, 1937, in Yakima, Washington, as the eldest child of Robert Emerson Lucas and Jane Templeton Lucas. His parents ran an ice creamery in Yakima. After the business failed during the Great Depression, the family moved to Seattle. His mother worked as a fashion designer and his father worked at a shipbuilding yard and later worked as a welder with a refrigeration company.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Robert Lucas Jr. (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs

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Cards in Robert E. Lucas Jr.'s fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

You keep the large view without skipping the next practical step. Your thoughts are about humanity, progress, and possibility. You think in big pictures and universal principles. Your mind is oriented toward uplift.

9♣ — Birth Card, from the published 9 of Clubs meaning

He also provided sound theoretical foundations to Milton Friedman and Edmund Phelps's view of the long-run neutrality of money, and provided an explanation for the then observed correlation between output and inflation, depicted by the Phillips curve, while illustrating that the existence of this empirical relationship did not yield a possibility of a policy trade off.

Paired on shared wording: possibility, view.

Also on the record

  1. Lucas received his BA in history in 1959 from the University of Chicago.
  2. Lucas attended the University of California, Berkeley, as a first-year graduate student, but he left Berkeley due to financial reasons and returned to Chicago in 1960, where he earned a PhD in economics in 1964.
  3. His dissertation, Substitution Between Labor and Capital in U.S.
  4. Manufacturing: 1929–1958, was written under the supervision of H.

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FAQ

What is Robert E. Lucas Jr.'s birth card?
The 9 of Clubs. September 15 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
Where do Robert E. Lucas Jr.'s dates come from?
Birth date 1937-09-15 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 714) + Wikidata CC0 (Q107264) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Robert Lucas Jr.). Birth date 1937-09-15 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).