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The Tobin Project has developed a powerful model for catalyzing transformative research in the social sciences. Through years of continuous innovation, Tobin has refined its program structure to effectively motivate scholarly inquiries with great potential to benefit society.
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Over the course of his career, Professor Tobin authored or edited sixteen books and more than four-hundred articles, while also publishing essays for a popular audience. Several key concepts also bear his name, including “Tobin’s q,” the “Tobit” regression model, and the “Tobin tax”.
The Tobin Project came through trial and error to its present, effective model for catalyzing transformative social-science research and identifying significant problems on which to work.
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James Tobin was born on March 5, 1918, in Champaign, Ilinois. He earned both a bachelor's and master's degree from Harvard University. After his graduation in 1940, Tobin began his career at the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply in Washington, D.C. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy. Tobin returned to Harvard ...
Applying the study of economics to real-world problems guided James Tobin’s work throughout his career and he once noted, “Economics has always been a policy-oriented subject. Unless it is applied to the urgent policy issues of the day, it will become a sterile exercise, without use or interest." In 1961, President Kennedy invited James Tobin to se...
James Tobin received the Nobel Prize in economics in 1981 for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production, and prices. His portfolio selection theory defines how financial markets influence the investment decisions of households and businesses based on weighted risks and expected rates of r...
James Tobin developed the "Tobin Tax" in response to the collapse of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1971. Volatile floating currency exchange rates replaced fixed currency exchange rates once based on the U.S. dollar's link to a gold standard. As money moved quickly in an environment of varying rates, Tobin proposed to reduce this volatility with a...
James Tobin was an American economist who received the 1981 Nobel Prize in economics. He pioneered the "Tobin Tax," the study of portfolio selection theory, and has influenced theories in economics including the Baumol-Tobin Model and the "Tobin Q."
The Tobin Project Model The Tobin Project uses a powerful model for catalyzing transformative research in the social sciences. Learn how we do it.
The Tobin Project has produced several books, which aim to integrate new ways of investigating an important problem, share the best contemporary understanding of that problem, and, ideally, to unlock doors for future research, all in one accessible volume. Antimonopoly and American Democracy.
In a seminal paper, Tobin (1969) theorized that the economy-wide rate of capital goods investment was related to the ratio (q) of the market value of assets to the replacement costs of those assets.
