Thomas J. Sargent

Thomas John Sargent (born July 19, 1943) is an American economist and a Rowan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics. 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".

Sargent previously held a joint appointment at New York University, where he joined the university in 2002 as the first W. R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business. He has also held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania (1970–71), University of Minnesota (1971–87), University of Chicago (1991–98), and Stanford University (1998–2002), as well as a visiting position at Princeton University.