Thomas J. Sargent, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Thomas J. Sargent

American economist

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1943

Place of Birth: Pasadena, California, United States

Profession: professor, economist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Thomas John "Tom" Sargent (born July 19, 1943) is an American economist, who is currently 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 2014, he ranks fourteenth among the most cited economists 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".