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James Tobin was an American economist who lived from 1918 to 2002 and made significant contributions to economic theory during the 20th century. He is best known for his work on investment behavior, monetary policy, and the relationship between financial markets and the real economy, which influenced how economists understand how money and spending interact.
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1981
“for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Champaign
- Place of death
- New Haven
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Position held
- president
- Educated at
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
- Employer
- Yale University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Joseph Schumpeter
- Field of work
- economics
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- United States Navy
- Military rank
- soldier
- Image
- James Tobin.png
- Residence
- Champaign
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- Commons category
- James Tobin
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- student
- Janet Yellen
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- name in native language
- James Tobin
- date of birth
- 1918-03-05
- date of death
- 2002-03-11
- professorship
- professor
- cause of death
- cerebrovascular disease
- manner of death
- natural causes
- interested in
- economics
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