Thomas J. Sargent
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican economist (born 1943)
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.
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An alternative “rational expectations” view denies that there is any inherent momentum in the present process of inflation.
Thomas J. Sargent, "The Ends of Four Big Inflations" (1981).
My published work is just a record of my learning. I'm sharing it with people so they won't make the same mistakes that I did. It's been a painful and slow process.
Thomas J. Sargent, in Conversations with Economists (1983) by Arjo Klamer
My recollection is that Bob Lucas and Ed Prescott were initially very enthusiastic about rational expectations econometrics.
Thomas J. Sargent interviewed by George W. Evans & , Macroeconomic Dynamics, 9, 2005, 561-583.
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Robert AumannAlso won Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics
Ragnar FrischAlso won Honorary Doctor of Stockholm University of Economics
Jean-Pierre RaffarinAlso won honorary degree of HEC Paris
George AkerlofAlso won Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
James A. RobinsonAlso won Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
James HeckmanAlso won Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic AssociationAbout this person
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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