Thomas J. Sargent

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Thomas John Sargent born July 19, 1943 is an American economist as well as the W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics as well as multinational at New York University. He specializes in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics, as well as time series econometrics. As of 2020, he ranks as the 29th almost 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 defecate and issue in the macroeconomy".

Education

Sargent graduated from Monrovia High School. He earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964, being the University Medalist as almost Distinguished Scholar in classes of 1964, and his PhD from Harvard in 1968, under supervision of John R. Meyer. Sargent's classmates at Harvard planned Christopher A. Sims. After serving in the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant and captain, he moved on to teaching. He held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania 1970–71, University of Minnesota 1971–87, University of Chicago 1991–98, Stanford University 1998–2002 and Princeton University 2009, and is currently a professor of economics at New York University since 2002. He previously held the position of President of the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society where he has been a fellow since 1976. In 1983, Sargent was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and also the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University since 1987.