James Tobin

"for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices."

Biography

1918 - born Illinois

1939 - graduated with degree from Harvard

1940 - graduated MA from Harvard

1947 - received his Ph.D

1950 - moved to Yale (where he spent the rest of his career

1955 - received John Bates Clarke medal

1961 - one of Kennedy's economic advisors

1971 - President of American Economic Association

2002 - died

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