# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-j-sargent
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:46:46.570Z

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name: "Thomas J. Sargent"
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description: "Thomas John Sargent is an American economist and the W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University. He specializes in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics. As of 2024, he ranks as the 38th most cited economist in the world. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2011 together with Christopher A. Sims for their \"empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy\"."
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birthDate: "1943-07-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump