At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other. — James Tobin Copy Share Image
The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. — James Tobin Copy Share Image
At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. — James Tobin Copy Share Image
The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission. — James Tobin Copy Share Image
I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
“Eleanor Roosevelt and others said polio changed Roosevelt, that it made him more compassionate. That may be so. But the first impact of the… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. — James Tobin Copy Share Image
