Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Thomas J. Sargent
Born: July 19, 1943 (age 82)
Bio: Thomas John "Tom" Sargent is an American economist, specializing 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.
Known for:
- Recursive Macroeconomic Theory (2000)
- The Big Problem of Small Change (2002)
- Rational Expectations and Inflation (1986)
- Dynamic macroeconomic theory (1987)
- Recursive Linear Models of Dynamic Economies (2013)