James Tobin - Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1981
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James Tobin

Prize
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1981
for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
3/5/1918
place of birth
Champaign
date of death
3/11/2002
place of death
New Haven
Lived
84 years
educated at
  • Harvard University
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • end time: 1947
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • University Laboratory High School
position held
  • president
    • start time: 1971
    • end time: 1972
member of
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1952
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1959
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
doctoral student
  • Harold W. Watts
  • Craig Eliot Swan
  • Donald Arthur Nichols
  • Paul Daniel Mastroddi
  • Bernard Max Markstein
  • Hiroshi Yoshikawa
  • Willem Buiter
  • Duncan K. Foley
  • Uri Possen
  • Richard R. Nelson
  • Stanley W. Black
  • Mark Gersovitz
  • Walter Christian Dolde
  • Arnold Katz
  • Douglas A. Downing
  • Matthew D. Berman
  • Richard Nathaniel Rosett
  • Edward Faulkner McKelvey
  • Lewis Charles Miller
  • Edward J. Stevens
  • John Henry Ciccolo
  • Thad W. Mirer
  • Koichi Hamada
  • John Y. Campbell
  • Kiyohiko G. Nishimura
  • Yukio Noguchi
  • Edmund Phelps
  • Robert Z. Aliber
  • Marcus Miller
  • Janet Yellen
  • William Brainard
  • Marcel Dagenais
  • Michael Haliassos
  • Jonathan Eaton
field of work
  • economics
  • macroeconomics
occupation
  • professor
  • economist
  • statistician
  • military personnel
  • university teacher
employer
  • Yale University
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