By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
The economists won for research on the cause-and-effect relationship between the economy and policy instruments.
Sargent argued in 1981 that public expectations were crucial to combating high inflation.
"We're just bookish types that look at numbers and try to figure out what's going on," Sargent said in an interview on the Nobel website.
