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James Tobin Quotes

American - Economist | March 5, 1918 - March 11, 2002

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

Great Depression Great Depression

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.

Father Teacher Curious Wise Gentle

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.

Learning War University Days United

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.

Hope Time Me Growing Up Better Same

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.

Time Research Economics Logic More

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

City Plan New Chairman Haven Served

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.

Talent Economics Someone Career Two

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.

School City High School Born High

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

Colleagues I Have Learned Important

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

Revolution Crisis Theory 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.

Good Spring Good Fortune Return Met

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

Great Stress Graduation Places Like

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