Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.
Thomas J. SargentThe first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.
Thomas J. SargentThere was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.
Thomas J. SargentWhen I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.
Thomas J. Sargent