Thomas Sargent

The 2011 Nobel laureate in economics, American economist, director of the Sargent Institute of Quantitative Economics and Finance at the HSBC School of Business at Peking University, is one of the leaders of the \Rational Expectation School\ and has made outstanding contributions to the establishment and development of the neoclassical macroeconomic system. Proficient in research in fields such as macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics. In 2011, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his achievements in empirical research on causality in macroeconomics. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Minnesota, the University of Chicago, Stanford University, Princeton University, etc. He has been teaching at New York University since 2002. His works \Macroeconomic Theory\ and \Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory\ are exemplary readings of European and American economics and their graduate education. He was the recipient of the University Medal for the Outstanding Scholar at Harvard University in 1964, won the Nemmers Economics Award in 1997, and was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983. Formerly served as the President of the Econometric Society, the American Economic Society, and the Society for Dynamic Economics.