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" The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. "
James Tobin
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" Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. "
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" 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. "
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" At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory. "
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" I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. "
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" From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission. "
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" 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. "
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