Further Reading on the Nobel Economics Laureates

CATHERINE RAMPELL

Dollars to doughnuts.

The spotlight today is on Christopher A. Sims of Princeton University and Thomas J. Sargent of New York University, the winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Dollars to doughnuts.

The two new laureates have very similar academic pedigrees: They both received their Ph.D.’s from Harvard in 1968, and both previously studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Several years later they both landed at the University of Minnesota. They are currently jointly teaching a graduate course in macroeconomics at Princeton.

The prize committee has published a description of their work for the general public, as well as a more technical version.

Here is the only paper the two wrote together, from 1977.

Some other links for Dr. Sargent:

And some links for Dr. Sims: