Thomas J. Sargent
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Thomas J. Sargent
Thomas John "Tom" Sargentis an American economist, who is currently 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 2014, he ranks fourteenth among the most cited economists in the world. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2011 together with Christopher A. Sims "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth19 July 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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