Last week Thomas Sargent was awarded the Nobel prize for economics. The idea most economists would associate with him is “rational expectations”. But the citation does not use the term. It asserts that his methods have been adopted around the world, but gives little clue what these are, hinting only they can be applied to the study of macroeconomic relationships.
10月10日,托馬斯?薩金特(Thomas Sargent)被授予2011年度諾貝爾經濟學獎。大部分經濟學家在提到他時都會聯想到“理性預期”。但頒獎辭中并未提到這個術語。頒獎辭肯定了一點,那就是他的研究方法在全球得到了廣泛應用,但幾乎沒有具體說明是怎樣的方法,只是提到它們能夠用于宏觀經濟關系研究。
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