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James Tobin

1918 - 2002

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James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He contributed to the development of key ideas in the Keynesian economics of his generation and advocated government intervention in particular to stabilize output and avoid recessions. His academic work included pioneering contributions to the study of investment, monetary and fiscal policy and financial markets. He also proposed an econometric model for censored dependent variables, the well-known tobit model. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Tobin is the 74th most popular economist (down from 73rd in 2019), the 1,187th most popular biography from United States (down from 990th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Economist.

James Tobin was a Nobel Prize-winning economist who was most famous for his work on the Tobin tax.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, James Tobin ranks 74 out of 414. Before him are Kenneth Arrow, Robert Mundell, Benjamin Graham, Friedrich List, Thorstein Veblen, and Gérard Debreu. After him are Robert Solow, Murray Rothbard, Finn E. Kydland, Beatrice Webb, Tjalling Koopmans, and Oliver E. Williamson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, James Tobin ranks 43. Before him are Arthur Kornberg, Choi Hong Hi, Franco Modigliani, Julian Schwinger, Mike Wallace, and João Goulart. After him are Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Kenichi Fukui, Edward B. Lewis, Betty Ford, Maurice Druon, and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. Among people deceased in 2002, James Tobin ranks 37. Before him are Ruth Handler, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Geraldine of Albania, Choi Hong Hi, Robert Nozick, and Juan Alberto Schiaffino. After him are Jonas Savimbi, Zizinho, William Luther Pierce, Abu Nidal, Xi Zhongxun, and John Cocke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Tobin ranks 1,187 out of 20,380. Before him are Ray Manzarek (1939), Ginger Rogers (1911), John Brown (1800), Tony Bennett (1926), Paul Allen (1953), and Tina Fey (1970). After him are Lynn Margulis (1938), Vivian Maier (1926), Herbie Hancock (1940), Jayne Mansfield (1933), Daniel Goleman (1946), and Richard Dreyfuss (1947).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, James Tobin ranks 20. Before him are Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Theodore Schultz (1902), Douglass North (1920), Lawrence Klein (1920), Kenneth Arrow (1921), and Thorstein Veblen (1857). After him are Robert Solow (1924), Murray Rothbard (1926), Oliver E. Williamson (1932), James M. Buchanan (1919), Irving Fisher (1867), and Robert Reich (1946).

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