Thomas J. Sargent's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

In the record

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. The birth-card coordinate for July 19 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2011 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2011 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Thomas J. Sargent's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Thomas J. Sargent. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

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Thomas J. Sargent in the public record

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. Sargent graduated from Monrovia High School.

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Ability to provide stability for others

Sargent's main contributions to rational expectations were these: trace the implications of rational expectations, with Wallace, for alternative monetary-policy instruments and rules on output stability and price determinacy. help make the theory of rational expectations statistically operational. provide some early examples of rational expectations models of the Phillips curve, the term structure of interest rates, and the demand for money during hyperinflations. analyze, along with Wallace, the dimensions along which monetary and fiscal policy must be coordinated intertemporally. conduct several historical studies that put rational expectations reasoning to work to explain consequences of dramatic changes in macroeconomic policy regimes.

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Also on the record

1. He earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964, being the University Medalist as Most Distinguished Scholar in Class of 1964, and his PhD from Harvard in 1968, under supervision of John R.
2. Meyer.
3. Sargent's classmates at Harvard included Christopher A.
4. Sims.

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• Alfred Fried — 1911 Peace
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• Guglielmo Marconi — 1909 Physics
• Henry W. Kendall — 1990 Physics
• Herta Müller — 2009 Literature
• Irving Langmuir — 1932 Chemistry
• James Peebles — 2019 Physics
• James Rainwater — 1975 Physics
• Jean-Paul Sartre — 1964 Literature
• John Bardeen — 1956 Physics; 1972 Physics
• 18 more laureates share this card.

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