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Thomas J. Sargent

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas J. Sargent is the 121st most popular economist (down from 112th in 2019), the 1,803rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,492nd in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Thomas J. Sargent ranks 121 out of 414. Before him are Daron Acemoglu, Thomas Schelling, Franz Oppenheimer, Alfred Weber, Lorenz von Stein, and Knut Wicksell. After him are James Mirrlees, Douglas McGregor, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Jean Tirole, James Mill, and Oskar Morgenstern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Thomas J. Sargent ranks 103. Before him are Ken Thompson, Colin Baker, Jean-Claude Killy, Hugh Thompson Jr., Superstar Billy Graham, and Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela. After him are René Préval, Lorenzo Sanz, Richard S. Hamilton, George Benson, Bernard Tapie, and Reinaldo Arenas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas J. Sargent ranks 1,803 out of 20,380. Before him are Stanley Kramer (1913), Jeffrey DeMunn (1947), Steve Carell (1962), Ethan Hawke (1970), Bruno Mars (1985), and Alben W. Barkley (1877). After him are David O. Selznick (1902), Randy Schekman (1948), Edgar Mitchell (1930), Donald P. Bellisario (1935), Mary Anderson (1918), and Walter Mondale (1928).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Thomas J. Sargent ranks 38. Before him are Robert Fogel (1926), W. Edwards Deming (1900), George Akerlof (1940), Richard Thaler (1945), Merton Miller (1923), and Thomas Schelling (1921). After him are Douglas McGregor (1906), Michael Spence (1943), Eugene Fama (1939), Jeremy Rifkin (1945), William Nordhaus (1941), and James Heckman (1944).

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