US academics Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims have won the 2011 Nobel economics prize.

美国学者托马斯·萨金特和克里斯多夫·西姆斯获得2011年诺贝尔经济奖。

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CHRISTOPHER SIMS: "I think the methods that I have used and Tom has developed are central to finding our way out of this mess."

西姆斯：“我认为，我俩的研究方法都聚焦于从烂摊子中找到我们的出路。

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Krugman, on the other hand, has left the door wide open to the possibility that anyone from Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen (1969) to Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims (2011) could be among the idiots he has identified.

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