James Tobin Quotes

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• After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a…
• 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…
• At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic…
• From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.
• I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste…
• I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city,…
• Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.
• My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my…
• The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
• The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married…
• The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
• Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

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