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Tobin, James
Born: 1918 AD
Died: 2002 AD, at 84 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Businessmen, Economist
Died: 2002 AD, at 84 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Businessmen, Economist
1918 - James Tobin, born on the 5th of March in Champaign, Illinois. He was an American economist.
1935 - He sited through the entrance exams for Harvard University.
1939 - Graduated summa cum laude with a thesis centered on a critical analysis of Keynes' mechanism for introducing equilibrium "involuntary" unemployment.
- Received his BA, in Harvard University.
1941 - He interrupted graduate studies to work for the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply and the War Production Board in Washington, D.C.
1946 - Married on the 14th of September with Elizabeth Fay Ringo, a former M.I.T. student of Paul Samuelson.
1947 - At the end of the war he returned to Harvard and resumed studies, receiving his Ph.D.
- Was elected a Junior Fellow of Harvard's Society of Fellows, which allowed him the freedom and funding to spend the next three years studying and doing research.
1950 - Moved to Yale University, where he remained for the rest of his career.
1955 - He joined the Cowles Foundation, which moved to Yale.
- Awarded the John Bates Clark Medal.
1957 - He was appointed Sterling Professor at Yale.
1961 - 1962 - Served as a member of John F. Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisors, under the chairman Walter Heller.
1971 - He was a fellow of several professional associations, holding the position of president of the American Economic Association.
1981 - Received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
1988 - Formally retired from Yale, but continued to deliver some lectures as Professor Emeritus and continued to write.
2002 - Died on the 11th of March in New Haven, Connecticut.
1935 - He sited through the entrance exams for Harvard University.
1939 - Graduated summa cum laude with a thesis centered on a critical analysis of Keynes' mechanism for introducing equilibrium "involuntary" unemployment.
- Received his BA, in Harvard University.
1941 - He interrupted graduate studies to work for the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply and the War Production Board in Washington, D.C.
1946 - Married on the 14th of September with Elizabeth Fay Ringo, a former M.I.T. student of Paul Samuelson.
1947 - At the end of the war he returned to Harvard and resumed studies, receiving his Ph.D.
- Was elected a Junior Fellow of Harvard's Society of Fellows, which allowed him the freedom and funding to spend the next three years studying and doing research.
1950 - Moved to Yale University, where he remained for the rest of his career.
1955 - He joined the Cowles Foundation, which moved to Yale.
- Awarded the John Bates Clark Medal.
1957 - He was appointed Sterling Professor at Yale.
1961 - 1962 - Served as a member of John F. Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisors, under the chairman Walter Heller.
1971 - He was a fellow of several professional associations, holding the position of president of the American Economic Association.
1981 - Received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
1988 - Formally retired from Yale, but continued to deliver some lectures as Professor Emeritus and continued to write.
2002 - Died on the 11th of March in New Haven, Connecticut.
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