One of these is not like the other.
Becker, Coase, Lucas, Ohanian
and I don't mean age/dead.
Lee Ohanian to ASU
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Best macroeconomist alive
Yes. He proved FDR caused the Great Depression by assuming that FDR caused the Great Depression. Calibrated the model and guess what? FDR caused the Great Depression. This is first-rate macro.
It's worse than this. His paper on Herbert Hoover contains actual fraud, not just subjectively implausible assumptions. Like accidentally using different variables in his model and calibration.