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Thomas J. Sargent is an American economist who has made significant contributions to economic theory and research. His work matters because it has influenced how economists understand and model economic behavior and policy decisions.
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- 1943-07-19
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- Fact or fiction : shortening debt maturity lowers interest costs
- Escaping Nash inflation
- Recent U.S. trade policy at the multilateral and bilateral levels
- Rational expectations and the theory of economic policy
- Macroeconomic Theory
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Thomas John Sargent (born July 19, 1943) 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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