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According to Wikipedia, James Tobin 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 developed the ideas of Keynesian economics, and advocated government intervention 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.

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James Tobin's Published Works

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Published Papers

Estimation of Relationships for Limited Dependent Variables (1958) (6260)
A General Equilibrium Approach to Monetary Theory (1969) (4865)
Liquidity Preference as Behavior towards Risk (1958) (3753)
The Interest-Elasticity of Transactions Demand For Cash (1956) (1378)
A Proposal for International Monetary Reform (1978) (1115)
Pitfalls in Financial Model-Building (1968) (1071)
Money and economic growth (1965) (1042)
Is growth obsolete (1973) (962)
Gamma Discounting (2001) (603)
Inflation and unemployment (1972) (583)
On Limiting the Domain of Inequality (1970) (457)
Two Cases for Sand in the Wheels of International Finance (1995) (401)
Keynesian Models of Recession and Depression (1975) (375)
Asset Markets and the Cost of Capital (1976) (360)
Commercial Banks as Creators of 'Money' (1963) (357)
On the efficiency of the financial system (1984) (343)
Money and Income: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?: Rejoinder. (1970) (304)
Asset Accumulation and Economic Activity (1982) (294)
Stabilization Policy Ten Years After (1980) (270)
Financial Intermediaries and the Effectiveness of Monetary Controls (1962) (234)
Money and Finance in the Macro-Economic Process (1982) (223)
Price Flexibility and Output Stability: An Old Keynesian View (1993) (216)
Monetary Policies and the Economy -- The Transmission Mechanism (1978) (210)
Neoclassical Growth with Fixed Factor Proportions (1966) (192)
A Dynamic Aggregative Model (1955) (192)
The New Economics One Decade Older (1974) (189)
MONEY, CAPITAL, AND OTHER STORES OF VALUE (1989) (176)
Long Run Effects of Fiscal and Monetary Policy on Aggregate Demand (1974) (172)
A Model of U.S. Financial and Nonfinancial Economic Behavior (1980) (140)
The Monetarist Counter-Revolution Today-An Appraisal (1981) (140)
Asset Accumulation and Economic Activity: Reflections on Contemporary Macroeconomic Theory (1981) (124)
What Is Permanent Endowment Income (1974) (120)
Comment on Borch and Feldstein (1969) (120)
A Statistical Demand Function for Food in the U.S.A (1950) (114)
A SURVEY OF THE THEORY OF RATIONING (1952) (113)
Friedman's Theoretical Framework (1972) (107)
How Dead is Keynes (1977) (97)
The Commercial Banking Firm: A Simple Model (1982) (94)
Debt Neutrality: A Brief Review of Doctrine and Evidence (1978) (94)
On the Predictive Value of Consumer Intentions and Attitudes (1959) (92)
Essays in economics (1971) (92)
Fiscal and Monetary Policies, Capital Formation, and Economic Activity (1978) (87)
Chapter 17 The macroeconomics of government finance (1990) (87)
Wealth, liquidity and consumption (1971) (86)
A Case for Preserving Regulatory Distinctions (1987) (85)
Money, credit, and capital (1997) (77)
Liquidity Preference and Monetary Policy (1947) (73)
Are New Classical Models Plausible Enough to Guide Policy (1980) (69)
The wage-price mechanism : overview of the conference (1973) (69)
Global Capital Flows: Should they be Regulated? (1998) (69)
Poverty in Relation to Macroeconomic Trends, Cycles, and Policies (1993) (66)
Monetary Policy: Rules, Targets, and Shocks (1983) (65)
The Short-Run Macroeconomics of Floating Exchange Rates: An Exposition (1979) (64)
Macroeconomic Effects of Selective Public Employment and Wage Subsidies (1977) (60)
The natural rate of unemployment: The natural rate as new classical macroeconomics (1995) (57)
Supply Constraints on Employment and Output: NAIRU Versus Natural Rate (1997) (57)
‘Domestic saving and international capital movements in the long run and the short run’ by M. Feldstein (1983) (57)
Asian financial crisis (1998) (56)
Notes on Optimal Monetary Growth (1968) (56)
Neoclassical Theory in America: J.B. Clark and Fisher (1985) (52)
Is a Negative Income Tax Practical?* (1967) (50)
Economic growth as an objective of government policy (1964) (48)
On the Internationalization of Portfolios (1992) (46)
Raising the incomes of the poor (1969) (45)
Deposit Interest Ceilings as a Monetary Control (1970) (45)
Financial Globalization: Can National Currencies Survive? (1998) (44)
Economic Research: Retrospect and Prospect, Volume 5, Economic Growth (1972) (43)
The Optimal Cash Balance Proposition: Maurice Allais' Priority (1989) (43)
The Application of Multivariate Probit Analysis to Economic Survey Data (1955) (39)
Relative income, absolute income and saving (1952) (38)
Macroeconomics, prices, and quantities : essays in memory of Arthur M. Okun (1983) (37)
Consumer Expenditures and the Capital Account (1959) (37)
The monetary interpretation of history : a review article (1965) (32)
On Crotty’s Critique of q-Theory (1990) (32)
A currency transactions tax, why and how (1996) (32)
Monetary Policy: Recent Theory and Practice (1998) (28)
Economic Events, Ideas, and Policies: The 1960s and After (2010) (28)
Price flexibility and full employment : the debate then and now (1990) (28)
Wealth, Liquidity, and the Propensity to Consume (1971) (27)
A Proposal for Monetary Reform (2003) (27)
An Old Keynesian Counterattacks (1993) (27)
The Neutrality of Money in Growth Models: A Comment (1967) (25)
The Monetary-Fiscal Mix: Long-Run Implications (1986) (25)
Policies for prosperity: Essays in a Keynesian mode (1987) (24)
On the Welfare Macroeconomics of Government Financial Policy (1986) (24)
On the theory of macroeconomic policy (1990) (24)
The future of Keynesian economics (1986) (23)
An Overview of the General Theory (1995) (22)
Theoretical Issues in Macroeconomics (1985) (20)
National Economic Policy (1966) (19)
The monetary and fiscal policy mix (1986) (19)
Estimates of the free demand for rationed foodstuffs. (1952) (19)
Monetary Policy in 1974 and Beyond (1974) (18)
A mean-variance approach to fundamental valuations (1984) (18)
Fisher's The Nature of Capital and Income (2005) (18)
The Invisible Hand in Modern Macroeconomics (1991) (18)
Irving Fisher (1867-1947) (2005) (17)
Two Revolutions in Economic Policy: The First Economic Reports of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan (1988) (17)
Hansen and Public Policy (1976) (17)
Consumer Debt and Spending: Some Evidence from Analysis of a Survey (1957) (17)
Full Employment and Growth: Further Keynesian Essays on Policy (1998) (17)
THE BURDEN OF THE PUBLIC DEBT: A REVIEW ARTICLE (1965) (16)
Towards a General Kaldorian Theory of Distribution (1960) (16)
Errata: Neoclassical Growth with Fixed Factor Proportions (1966) (15)
Deficit Spending and Crowding Out in Shorter and Longer Runs (1977) (15)
Natural Gas Compressor Stations on the Interstate Pipeline Network : Developments Since 1996 (2007) (14)
Full Employment And Growth (1996) (14)
Essays in economics, theory and policy (1984) (13)
Essays in Economics: National and International (1996) (13)
A Note on the Money Wage Problem (1941) (13)
Mandatory Retirement Saving and Capital Formation (1983) (12)
Financial markets and economic activity (1973) (12)
Notes on the economic theory of expulsion and expropriation (1974) (12)
Economic Research : Retrospect and Prospect ECONOMIC GROWTH (2003) (12)
International Currency Regimes, Capital Mobility, and Macroeconomic Policy (1991) (11)
Price Flexibility and Output Stability (1994) (11)
Money and Permanent Income: Some Empirical Tests (1969) (10)
Essays in Economics, Volume 2: Consumption and Econometrics. (1978) (10)
Towards Improving the Efficiency of the Monetary Mechanism (1960) (10)
Business Cycles and Economic Growth: Current Controversies about Theory and Policy (1993) (9)
The Natural Rate as New Classical Macroeconomics -- For Rod Cross, The Natural Rate Hypothesis 25 Years On (1993) (9)
Money and banking in contemporary Japan : the theoretical setting and its application (1980) (9)
Welfare programs : an economic appraisal (1968) (9)
The Economy of China: A Tourist’s View (1973) (8)
Comment from academic scribbler (1978) (8)
Macroeconomic Strategy in Wartime (2002) (8)
Macroeconomics Under Debate (1983) (8)
The Future of Social Security: One Economist's Assessment (1987) (8)
On the Endogeneity of Money Supply (1991) (8)
Can We Grow Faster (1997) (8)
Growth and Distribution: A Neoclassical Kaldor-Robinson Exercise (1989) (7)
Government Deficits and Capital Accumulation (1978) (7)
Shonfield: Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power (1966) (7)
World finance and economic stability : selected essays of James Tobin (2003) (7)
Prologue to The Tobin Tax: Coping with Financial Volatility (2003) (7)
GROWTH IN UNBUNDLED NATURAL GAS TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, 1982-1987 (1989) (7)
The IMF's misplaced priorities: flawed fund (2003) (6)
[Comment on Tobin]: Rejoinder (1970) (6)
High Time to Restore the Employment Act of 1946 (1986) (6)
Inter-Generation Transfers of Wealth and the Theory of Saving (1963) (6)
Monetary Policy and the Management of the Public Debt: The Patman Inquiry (1953) (6)
Essays in economics : macroeconomics (1987) (6)
Fiscal Policy: Its Macroeconomics in Perspective (2001) (6)
7. UNEMPLOYMENT AND INFLATION: THE CRUEL DILEMMA (1967) (6)
Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II (1997) (6)
Discussion of Risk Adjustment (1990) (5)
Commentary on Irving Fisher, The Nature of Capital and Income (1906) (1991) (5)
16. Adjustment Responsibilities of Surplus and Deficit Countries (1967) (5)
Reply to Professor Eisner (1959) (5)
World Finance And Economic Stability (2003) (5)
Explanation of Birth Rate Changes over Space and Time: A Study of Taiwan: Comment (1973) (5)
The 1982 economic report of the president: The annual report of the council of economic advisers (1982) (4)
Major Issues in the Regulation of Financial Institutions: Comment (1967) (4)
The intellectual revolution in U.S. economic policy-making : the second Noel Buxton lecture of the University of Essex, 18 January 1966 (1966) (4)
The Fallacies of Lord Keynes' General Theory: Comment (1948) (4)
Book Review:Keynes' Monetary Thought: A Study of Its Development Don Patinkin (1981) (4)
Democracy's Edges: A comment on Dahl's skepticism (1999) (4)
Impasse of the 1980s: Locomotives who Can't or Won't (1984) (4)
On Consequences and Criticisms of Monetary Targeting, or Monetary Targeting: Dead at Last? Comment (1985) (4)
Essays in Economics: Consumption and Econometrics (1987) (4)
Monetary Velocity and Monetary Policy: A Rejoinder (1948) (4)
The Reagan economic plan--supply-side, budget and inflation (1981) (4)
Monetary Rules and Control in Brave New World (1987) (4)
Speculators' tax: International policy coorcdination and national monetary autonomy‐why both are needed and how a trasaction tax would help (1994) (4)
Joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and capital flow (2009) (4)
Comments by Professor James Tobin (1997) (4)
Price Flexibility and the Stability of Full-Employment Equilibrium (1993) (3)
The 1979 Founders symposium, The Institute for Social Research, honoring George Katona (1979) (3)
Inventories, Investment, Inflation and Taxes (1987) (3)
Comments on the Relevance of Psychology to Economic Theory and Research. (1963) (3)
Savages, the poor and the discourse of Hawaiian infanticide (1997) (3)
MISUNDERSTANDING DISTRIBUTION (2002) (3)
Health Care Reform as Seen by a General Economist (1994) (3)
Landmark Papers in Macroeconomics Selected by James Tobin (2002) (3)
Can You Fool All of the People All of the Time?: Reply (1972) (3)
On Living and Trading with Japan, United States Commercial and Macroeconomic Policies (1991) (3)
The Experiment in Applied Econometrics (1997) (3)
International trade and financial markets (2001) (3)
Economic Progress and the International Monetary System (1963) (3)
FINAL REMARK (1959) (3)
Keynesian Theory: Is It Still a Useful Tool in the Economic Reality of Today? (1992) (3)
Comments and Discussion: The Fellner, Okun, and Gordon Reports (1971) (2)
Comment on the Paper by Professor Laidler [Monetarism: An Interpretation and an Assessment] (1981) (2)
The International Monetary System: Pluralism and Interdependence (1991) (2)
Estimates of sectoral capital/output ratios for Kenya (1973) (2)
The Economy of China: A Tourist's View (1975) (2)
Our National Debt (1950) (2)
The Business Cycle in the Post-war World: A Review (1958) (2)
Technological Development and Employment (1972) (2)
National Economic Policy: Essays (1966) (2)
The American Individual Enterprise System: Its Nature, Evolution, and Future (1948) (2)
Fisher's Introductory Text (2005) (2)
A Keynesian View of the Budget Deficit (1984) (2)
The Economic Pendulum: 1962… 1982… 1992(?) (1992) (2)
World economy and financial markets (1998) (1)
The 1980s A decade of stagnation (1989) (1)
In Memoriam: Richard Ruggles (1916‐2001) (2001) (1)
Money (for New Palgrave Money and Finance) (1992) (1)
[Reconsidering the Costs of Business Cycles with Incomplete Markets]: Comment (1994) (1)
How Q and Cash Flow Affect Investment without Frictions: An Analytic Explanation1 (2008) (1)
Monetary policies in the 1980s and beyond (1990) (1)
Irving Fisher (1867-1947) in Retrospect: Fisher's Introductory Text (1997) (1)
Monetary Restriction and Direct Controls (1951) (1)
On Minsky's Agenda for Reform (1999) (1)
Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy: Paul A. Samuelson and Modern Economics (1982) (1)
The Icons of Public Debt: Reply (1966) (1)
Capital Requirements for Economic Growth (1961) (1)
Europe and the Dollar (1964) (1)
The Monetary-Fiscal Policy Mix in the United States, W. A. Mackintosh Lecture (1984) (1)
Landmark papers in macroeconomics (2002) (1)
A Model of Fixed Capital without Substitution (1965) (1)
AN EVALUATION OF THE TESTS (2009) (1)
Inflation and unemployment in the share economy (1986) (1)
More on Inflation: Reply (1973) (1)
The Carter Economics: A Symposium (1978) (1)
Remarks at a round table on Tobin Tax (2003) (0)
Controlling the price level. Commentary (2005) (0)
Syv nobelprismodtagere, med sympati for Basic Income tanken (2006) (0)
Discussion [of "Financial Innovation and the Monetary Aggregates" and "The Monetary Deceleration: What Does It Mean and Why Is It Happening?"] (1979) (0)
Reflections on Japanese Political Economy (2001) (0)
Essays in Economics, Vol. 4: National and International (1996) (0)
The Conservative Counter-Revolution in Economic Policy. (1983) (0)
Note of search unemployment and wage differentials (1972) (0)
Einleitung zur Neuausgabe von Irving Fishers "The nature of capital and income" . Irving Fisher 1867-1947 . Irving Fishers "The nature of capital and income" (1991) (0)
Preface to Eduard Marz, Schumpeter, English Translation, Yale University Press (1991) (0)
Book Review:The Theory of Inter-Sectoral Money Flows and Income Formation John Somerset Chipman (1953) (0)
The "New Economics": Not New Enough (1967) (0)
Growth Theory : Financial Factors and Long-Run Growth (2009) (0)
Controlling monetary aggregates : proceedings of the monetary conference held on Nantucket Island, June 8-10, 1969 (1969) (0)
Book reviews (1996) (0)
Consumer Attitudes and Demand 1950-1952 (1955) (0)
ON THE THEORY OF MACROECONOMIC POLICY****Third Tinbergen Lecture delivered on October 20, 1989, in Utrecht for the Royal Netherlands Economic Association. (1993) (0)
Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, (2003) (0)
Economic Dynamics: An Introduction. William J. Baumol (1952) (0)
Macroeconomics in the Conservative Era (1997) (0)
The New Era of Good Feeling between Business and Government (1965) (0)
Price stability and public policy (overview) (1984) (0)
How can monetary policy be improved (1994) (0)
Growth and Distribution: A Reply (1990) (0)
Book Review:Monetary Policy for a Competitive Society. Lloyd W. Mints (1951) (0)
Symposium on limiting the moral hazard in international financial rescues (2003) (0)
Working Paper Department of Economics Increasing Returns and Unemployment Equilibrium (2011) (0)
ON THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF EXPULSION AND EXPROPRIATION By (2010) (0)
Alternative Forecasts of Saving 1947-56 (1957) (0)
Economic Indicators September 1999 (1999) (0)
1960: campaign memo on economic growth and Growth Through Taxation (2003) (0)
The Process of Inflation in the Labor Market. Comments and Discussion (1974) (0)
James Tobin, Franco Modigliani, Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott (2010) (0)
Does Fiscal Policy Matter (1995) (0)
Essays in Economics - Vol. 2: Consumption and Economics (1987) (0)
Whatever happened to fiscal policy (2003) (0)
Planned and approved U.S. pipelines carry $28 billion price tag (2009) (0)
Keynesian insights for the Japanese economy (2003) (0)
James Tobin, 1918â€“2002 (2002) (0)
Private implementation of the Plan (in France) involves, or at least threatens to involve, co-operative arrangements among rivals which would be at odds with American tradition (1963) (0)
The global economy: who is at the helm? (2003) (0)
A note on the demand for food; a rejoinder. (1952) (0)
on "Monetary Policy Issues in the 1980's," sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of (1982) (0)
James Tobin''le Söyleşi (2002) (0)
Discussion of Tobin and Poole Reports (2007) (0)
[What Are the Costs of Excessive Deficits?]: Comment (1988) (0)
The economics of the radical right (1997) (0)
Between a market-based and a caring society: what kind of socially responsible economy do we want? (2003) (0)
Clinton's second term and the American economy (2003) (0)
Comment on Robert Hall's “Controlling the Price Level” (2005) (0)
Foreword to Global Capital Flows (2003) (0)
Fall MRS 2003: Actinides Symposium (2003) (0)
Book Review:The Frontiers of Economic Knowledge Arthur F. Burns (1955) (0)

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