Thomas Sargent — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2011 for empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.
Serves as the W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University.
A leader of the "rational expectations revolution" in economics.
Specializes in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics.
Served as President of the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society.
Holds a Ph.D. from Harvard (1968) and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (1964).

Biography

Thomas John Sargent is an American economist and the W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University. He specializes in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics. In 2011, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, shared with Christopher A. Sims, for their "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy." As of 2024, he ranks as the 38th most cited economist globally.

Sargent earned his B.A.