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Mar 12, 2002 · March 12, 2002. James Tobin, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in economics, honored professor at Yale University and one of the most influential economists of his times, died March 11 at the age of 84. The Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale, Tobin was described by fellow Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson as “the archetype of a late ...
Dec 13, 2016 · Abstract. James Tobin was a brilliant economist and the leading proponent of Keynesian economics in the second half of the 20th century. He greatly advanced understanding of financial institutions and monetary theory and policy. He stressed the importance of asset holdings and wealth on consumer spending.
Tobin did his undergraduate and graduate work at Harvard University, with an interruption to serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Since 1950 he has been an economics professor at Yale University. He took a leave of absence to serve as a member of President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers from January 1961 to July 1962.
Born on March 5, 1918, James Tobin is an American economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work and analysis of financial markets and how they relate to production, prices, expenditure decisions and budgeting, and employment. Mr. Tobin focused on Keynesian economics, and his most prominent work was on financial markets.
Mar 13, 2002 · Dr. James Tobin, a professor emeritus of economics at Yale who was a top adviser in the Kennedy administration and received the Nobel Prize in economics in 1981, died on Monday in New Haven.
May 23, 2018 · James Tobin, winner of the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, was among the leaders of postwar economics, with several significant contributions that now bear his name. Tobin was born in 1918 in Champaign, Illinois. Educated in economics at Harvard, he earned an AB in 1939, an AM in 1940, and, after a wartime role as a naval officer, a PhD ...
