Thomas J. Sargent

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Thomas J. Sargent (born July 19, 1943) is an American economist specializaing in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics and time series economics. 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 produced the Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition.

He earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1968.

He has been affiliated with Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, University of Minnesota, University of Chicago, Stanford University, and is currently Professor of Economics at New York University and Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution.