Thomas J. Sargent

Thomas John "Tom" Sargent (born July 19, 1943) is an American economist specializing in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics and time series econometrics. He is known as "one of the leaders of the rational expectations revolution" and the author of numerous path-breaking papers. Working with Neil Wallace, Sargent developed the saddle path stability characterization of the rational expectations equilibrium. He is considered to be among the most influential economists in the world.http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all.html IDEAS/RePEc

Sargent earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964, being the University Medalist as Most Distinguished Scholar in Class of 1964, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1968. He held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania (1970–1971), University of Minnesota (1971–1987), University of Chicago (1991–1998), Stanford University (1998–2002), and is currently the Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University. In the Spring of 2009, he served as a visiting professor at Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1976. In 1983, Sargent was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University since 1987.

In 2011 Sargent was awarded the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy......
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