James Tobin (1918–2002)
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1918 · died 2002
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 Yale University. He contributed to the development of key ideas in the Keynesian economics of his generation and advocated government intervention in particular 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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Where the papers are held
The surviving papers of James Tobin (1918–2002) are held at Manuscripts and Archives Department Yale University Library.
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