Considered the intellectual leader of the new classical school of economic thought and of the rational expectations theory, Robert Lucas, University of Chicago, has guest lectured across the United States and in China, Finland, England, Israel and Canada.>

Lawrence Lindsey, the Federal Reserve Board's youngest governor, shares his views on the Fed, taxation, the 1980s and other matters.

Vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors is the latest in a series of public service positions Alice Rivlin has held over the past 30-plus years. In 1996 she made the shift from fiscal to monetary affairs with ease.