Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Robert Lucas, Jr., John Muth, Robert Barro, Edward C. Prescott, Finn E. Kydland, Randall Wright, Thomas J. Sargent, Christian Hellwig, Hyun Song Shin, Stephen Morris, Bennett Mccallum, Neil Wallace. Excerpt: New classical economics Bennett T. McCallum (born July 27, 1935) is an American monetary economist . He is H. J. Heinz Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University 's Tepper School of Business . McCallum earned a B.A. (in economics) and a B.Sc. (in chemical engineering) from Rice University . He then attended Harvard Business School to earn his M.B.A., before returning to Rice in order to get his Ph.D. in economics. He became professor at Carnegie Mellon in 1981, after holding a professorship at the University of Virginia (1974 1982). Among his doctoral students was Charles L. Evans, the current president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago . See also (online edition) References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Neoclassical economics Christian Hellwig is a German economic theorist and macroeconomist who did research in the field of global games . He is the editor of the Journal of Economic Theory . Biography Hellwig obtained a B.A. in Economics at the University of Lausanne in 1998, a M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics by the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Economics at LSE in 2002. He spent the last two years of his doctorate as a visiting scholar at MIT . He became an Assistant Professor at UCLA in 2002 and became a tenured associate professor in 2007. In addition to his academic position, Hellwig is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research since 2007 and became the editor of the Journal of Economic Theory in June 2008. He is a member of the Board of ...