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Thomas J. Sargent is an economist and professor who was born on July 19, 1943, in Pasadena, California. He holds citizenship in the United States. Sargent has been educated at several institutions, including Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley, Monrovia High School, and Harvard Business School.
Sargent's academic disciplines cover economics, macroeconomics, and monetary economics. He is known for his empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.
In 2011, Thomas J. Sargent received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. His doctoral advisor was John R. Meyer. Sargent has also supervised the doctoral studies of several students, such as Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum, Wayne Carroll, and Sagiri Kitao.
