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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 242,451 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas J. Sargent is the 115th most popular economist (up from 130th in 2019), the 1,541st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,731st in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Thomas J. Sargent ranks 115 out of 315Before him are Robert J. Shiller, Jean Tirole, Lorenz von Stein, Kristalina Georgieva, Robert B. Wilson, and Silvio Gesell. After him are Rudolf Hilferding, William Beveridge, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Finn E. Kydland, Thomas Schelling, and Oskar Morgenstern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Thomas J. Sargent ranks 101Before him are Jean-Claude Killy, Edie Sedgwick, Michael Palin, Jacques Laffite, Wanda Rutkiewicz, and Eric Idle. After him are Mario J. Molina, Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, Barbara Bouchet, R. L. Stine, Finn E. Kydland, and J. Michael Kosterlitz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas J. Sargent ranks 1,541 out of 18,182Before him are Carson McCullers (1917), Richard F. Heck (1931), Robert B. Wilson (1937), Brad Dourif (1950), Jennifer Garner (1972), and Chief Seattle (1786). After him are Martha Stewart (1941), Benedict Arnold (1741), James Van Allen (1914), Jake Gyllenhaal (1980), Matt LeBlanc (1967), and James McKeen Cattell (1860).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Thomas J. Sargent ranks 36Before him are William Nordhaus (1941), Vernon L. Smith (1927), Dale T. Mortensen (1939), Eugene Fama (1939), Robert J. Shiller (1946), and Robert B. Wilson (1937). After him are Thomas Schelling (1921), George Stigler (1911), Robert Fogel (1926), Edward C. Prescott (1940), Michael Spence (1943), and Jim Rogers (1942).