At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the… — 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.… — 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
