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Thomas J. Sargent

1943 - Today

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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 2020, he ranks as the 29th most cited economist in the world. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2011 together with Christopher A. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas J. Sargent has received more than 259,781 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas J. Sargent is the 112th most popular economist (up from 114th in 2019), the 1,492nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,541st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Thomas J. Sargent ranks 112 out of 414. Before him are Silvio Gesell, Adolph Wagner, Friedrich von Wieser, Rudolf Hilferding, Zhou Youguang, and Richard Stone. After him are William Nordhaus, Carlo M. Cipolla, Merton Miller, Finn E. Kydland, Richard Cantillon, and Edward C. Prescott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Thomas J. Sargent ranks 104. Before him are Ri Chun-hee, Reinaldo Arenas, Jacques Laffite, Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, Ulay, and Mustafa Dzhemilev. After him are Finn E. Kydland, Eric Idle, Otoya Yamaguchi, Vint Cerf, Holland Taylor, and Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas J. Sargent ranks 1,492 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Rooker (1955), J. J. Cale (1938), Bessie Smith (1894), W. Eugene Smith (1918), Kelly Preston (1962), and David McClelland (1917). After him are Stonewall Jackson (1824), William Nordhaus (1941), Erskine Caldwell (1903), Herbert Blomstedt (1927), David Graf (1950), and Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Thomas J. Sargent ranks 33. Before him are Robert Lucas Jr. (1937), Claudia Goldin (1946), George Akerlof (1940), Dale T. Mortensen (1939), Douglas McGregor (1906), and Thomas Schelling (1921). After him are William Nordhaus (1941), Merton Miller (1923), Edward C. Prescott (1940), Jeremy Rifkin (1945), Robert J. Shiller (1946), and Alan Greenspan (1926).

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