James Tobin Quotes

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. - James Tobin

There was considerable danger they'd be forgotten and their contributions buried. - James Tobin

The stories of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate already had been well-told by others, both on film and in books... But here was this remarkable, all-but-unknown story about Gustav Lindenthal and Othmar Ammann ... and how they fought each other to realize the dream of bridging the Hudson with what would be the longest bridge in the world. - James Tobin

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. - James Tobin

The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later. - James Tobin

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. - James Tobin

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher. - James Tobin

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students. - James Tobin

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana. - James Tobin

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