Thomas J. Sargent: Economics

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“Economics is organized common sense. Here is a short list of valuable lessons that our beautiful subject teaches.”

Thomas J. Sargent

Thomas J. Sargent, University of California at Berkeley graduation speech (2007), quoted in David Glasner, " Memo to Tom Sargent: Economics Is More than Just Common Sense https://uneasymoney.com/2014/04/25/memo-to-tom-sargent-economics-is-more-than-just-common-sense/" (2014)

Beauty , Sense

“What policymakers (and econometricians) should recognize, then, is that societies face a meaningful set of choices about alternative economic policy regimes.”

Thomas J. Sargent

"Rational expectations and the dynamics of hyperinflation." 1973

“It is paradoxical that an administration that came to office rejecting the whole apparatus of Keynesian economics finds itself presiding over a stream of what threaten to be permanent deficits.”

Thomas J. Sargent

Thomas J. Sargent "Back to Basics On Budgets", The New York Times (August 10, 1983).