James Tobin Quotes & Sayings
12 most famous James Tobin quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 44 year old Australian economist born on Apr 1, 1980.
“The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.”
“Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.”
“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.”
“From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.”
“The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.”
“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.”
“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.”
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