James Tobin Quotes

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 and monetary theory.
James Tobin

Time, Personal, Research

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 and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.
James Tobin

Someone, Career, Made

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 naval officer.
James Tobin

War, Learning, After

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

Time, Hope, Two

From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.
James Tobin

Plan, City, Chairman

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, Urbana.
James Tobin

School, High, Born

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.
James Tobin

Important, Learned, 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 wise and gentle teacher.
James Tobin

Teacher, Wise, Father

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
James Tobin

Crisis, Revolution, Economic

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 a few months later.
James Tobin

Good, Greatest, Spring

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
James Tobin

Great, Depression, Political

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
James Tobin

Graduation, Great, Stress

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: March 5, 1918

Died: March 11, 2002

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