James Tobin (March 5, 1918 - March 11, 2002) was an American economist. Tobin advocated and developed the ideas of Keynesian economics. He believed that governments should intervene in the economy in order to stabilise output and avoid recessions. His academic work included pioneering contributions to the study of investment, monetary and fiscal policy and financial markets. Furthermore, he proposed an econometric model for censored endogenous variables, … Wikipedia
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In 1947 Tobin received his Ph.D. from Harvard, and in 1950 he joined the faculty of Yale University, where in 1957 he became Sterling professor of economics. www.nobel-winners.com/Economics/james_tobin.html
James Tobin (19182002) Former Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, was on the Yale faculty from 1950. cowles.econ.yale.edu/faculty/tobin.htm
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