Thomas John Sargent 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". The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011, announced October 10, 2011. Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims, “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy”. Thomas J. Sargent: born 1943, Pasadena, CA, USA. Christopher A. Sims: born 1942, Washington, D.C., USA. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).