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? ? ? ? ? 罗伯特·J·戈登-详解 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 本条目包含过多不是中文的内容，欢迎协助翻译。 若已有相当内容译为中文，可迳自去除本模板。 Robert James Gordon 　　Robert James Gordon is an economics professor at Northwestern University. He also holds the title of Stanley G. Harris Professor in the social sciences. 　　He is an expert on measuring and explaining productivity growth, the causes of unemployment and airline economics. 　　From 1995-1997 he served on the Boskin Commission to assess the accuracy of the United States Consumer Price Index (CPI), having written the definitive criticism of CPI inflation-overstatement in 1990. 　　Bob Gordon is a member of a family of economists. Both his parents Robert Aaron and Margaret earned distinction independently, each contributing to economic knowledge with a view to real practical benefit for society, likewise his brother David, more of a radical. For example, his father is the namesake of the Gordon Report which proposed reforms for the computation of the unemployment rate by the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This matches nicely with the younger Gordons recent work on the CPI. 　　The inflation rate and unemployment rate trace the famous Phillips Curve. The New Zealander William Phillips won fame in 1958 by plotting one scatter diagram. Within twenty years over 1,000 articles on the Phillips Curve had been written in learned journals. The path of research history took a turn with the advent of the Rational Expectations hypothesis championed by Robert E. Lucas and others of the Chicago School during the 1970s. 　　It is something of a record for the short time lapse between the rise of the Rational Expectations school, confined initially to graduate seminars, and its appearance in a standard intermediate textbook. Robert J. Gordons popular text Macroeconomics was the first to incorporate the Rational Expectations hypothesis into the analysis of the Phillips Curve. Soon all subsequent macro textbooks were expounding the Expectations Augmented