"My father also happened to be an intellectual,……" — James Tobin
"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 wise and gentle teacher."
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12 Quotes by James Tobin
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After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University…
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At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of…
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At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and…
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From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.
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I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging,…
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I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High…
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Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.
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The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
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The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth…
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The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
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Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
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