James Tobin

Muchos de nuestro alumnos oyen continuamente el nombre de Tobin en nuestros cursos de macro... por ejemplo la "q" de Tobin que se usa en funciones inversión, o para explicar un canal de transmisión de la política monetaria, o el impuesto Tobin, por mencionar sólo algunos de los términos más usuales.
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Aquí les dejo una liga para accesar un artículo interesante sobre Tobin, Yale’s Tobin Guides Obama From Grave as Friedman Is Eclipsed, publicado en Bloomberg
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Like Keynes, Tobin was an advocate for the role of government in maintaining full employment, said James Galbraith, an economist at the University of Texas in Austin. The current economic and financial crisis has validated that philosophy, said Galbraith, a former Tobin student and the son of the late John Kenneth Galbraith, who was a friend of Tobin

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Tobin, who died in 2002, won the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of the effect of financial markets on inflation and employment. His followers have been honored as well. Krugman won the 2008 prize, for work on international trade and economic geography. Stiglitz shared the 2001 award, which cited analyses of markets in which some participants have much better information than others.