James Tobin, 1918-

Tobin won the Nobel Memorial prize in 1981.

Major Works of James Tobin

• "Money, Wage Rates and Employment" 1947, in Harris, editor, The New Economics.
• "Liquidity Preference and Monetary Policy", 1947, REStat
• "A Dynamic Aggregative Model", 1955, JPE
• "The Interest Elasticity of the Transactions Demand for Cash", 1956, RES.
• "Liquidity Preference as Behavior Towards Risk", 1958, RES.
• "Estimation of Relationships for Limited Dependent Variables", 1958, Econometrica
• "On the Predictive Value of Consumer Intentions and Attitudes", 1959, RES 
• "Consumer Expenditures and the Capital Account" with Harold W. Watts, 1960, in Friend and Jones, editors, Proceedings of
  the Conference on Consumption and Saving
• "Towards a General Kaldorian Theory of Income Distribution", 1960, RES
• "Money, Capital and Other Stores of Value", 1961, AER.
• "An Essay on the Principles of Debt Management", 1963, in Fiscal and Debt Management Policies
• "Comments on the Relevance of Psychology to Economic Theory and Research" with F.T. Dolbear, 1963, in Koch, editor, Psychology: A study of a science
• "Commercial Banks as Creators of Money", 1963, in Carson, Banking and Monetary Studies.
• "Financial Intermediaries and the Effectiveness of Monetary  Controls", with W.C. Brainard, 1963, AER.
• "Economic Growth as an Objective of Government Policy", 1964, AER
• "Money and Economic Growth", 1965, Econometrica.
• "A Monetary Interpretation of History", 1965, AER.
• "Neoclassical Growth with Fixed Factor Proportions", with R.M. Solow, C.C. von Weizsacker and M. Yaari 1966, RES.
• "Life Cycle Saving and Balanced Growth", 1967, in Ten Economic Studies in the Tradition of Irving Fisher
• "Pitfalls in Financial Model Building" with W.C. Brainard, 1968, AER.
• "The Consumption Function", 1968, IESS
• "Notes on Optimal Monetary Growth", 1968, JPE
• "Raising the Incomes of the Poor" 1968, in Gordon, editor, Agenda for the Nation
• "Money and Permanent Income: Some Empirical Tests" with C. Swan, 1969, AER 
• "A General Equilibrium Approach to Monetary Theory", 1969, JMCB.
• "Deposit Interest Ceilings as a Monetary Control", 1970, JMCB.
• "Money and Income: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?", 1970, QJE.
• "Rejoinder to Professor Friedman", 1970, QJE.
• "Wealth, Liquidity and Consumption" with W. Dolde, 1971, in Consumer Spending and Monetary Policy
• "Friedman's Theoretical Framework", 1972, JPE.
• "Inflation and Unemployment", 1972, AER.
• "The Wage-Price Mechanism", 1973, in Weiner, editor, Econometrics of Price Determination.
• "Is Growth Obsolete?" with W.D. Nordhaus, 1973, in Moss, editor, Measurement of Economic and Social Performance
• Essays in Economics, two volumes, 1974-5.
• "Keynesian Models of Recession and Depression", 1975, AER.
• "Long-Run Effects of Fiscal and Monetary Policy", with W.H. Buiter, 1976, in Stein, editor, Monetarism.
• "Reply: Is Friedman a Monetarist?"  1976, in Stein, editor, Monetarism.
• "Asset Markets and the Cost of Capital." with W.C. Brainard, 1977, Economic Progress, Private Values and Public Policy
• "How Dead Is Keynes?", 1977, Econ Inquiry
• "Monetary Policies and the Economy: The transmission mechanism", 1978, Southern EJ.
• "A Proposal for International Monetary Reform", 1978, Eastern EJ - copy
• "Deficit Spending and Crowding Out in Shorter and Longer Runs", 1979, in Theory for Economic Efficiency
• "A Model of U.S. Financial and Non-financial Economic Behavior" with W.C. Brainard, D. Backus and G. Smith, 1980, JMCB 
• "Debt Neutrality: A Brief Review of Doctrine and Evidence." with W.H. Buiter, 1979, in Fursternberg, editor, Social Security Versus Private Saving, Copyright.
• "Stabilization Policy Ten Years After", 1980, BPEA 
• "The Short-Run Macroeconomics of Floating Exchange Rates: An Exposition" with J.B. de Macedo, 1980, in Chipman and Kindleberger, editors, Flexible Exchange Rates and the Balance of Payments
• "Fiscal and Monetary Policies, Capital Formation, and Economic Activity" with W.H. Buiter, 1980, in  Government and Capital Formation
• "Are New Classical Models Plausible Enough to Guide Policy?", 1980, JMCB
• "Government Deficits and Capital Accumulation", 1980, Contemporary Economic Activity
• Asset Accumulation and Economic Activity: Reflections on contemporary macroeconomic theory, 1980.
• "The Monetarist Counter-Revolution Today: An appraisal", 1981, EJ.
• "Money and Finance in the Macroeconomic Process", 1982, JMCB.
• "The Commercial Banking Firm: A simple model", 1982, Scandinavian JE.
• "The 1982 Economic Report of the President: Comment on the Annual Report of the Council of Economic
  Advisers", JME
• "The State of Exchange Rate Theory: Some Skeptical Observations", 1982, in International Monetary System Under Flexible Exchange Rates
• "Monetary Policy: Rules, Targets, and Shocks", 1983, JMCB
• "On the Efficiency of the Financial System", 1984, Lloyd's Bank Review.
• "A Mean–Variance Approach to Fundamental Valuations", 1984, J of Portfolio Management
• "Financial Innovation and Deregulation in Perspective", 1985, Bank of Japan MES.
• "Neoclassical Theory in America: J. B. Clark and Fisher", 1985, AER
• "The Monetary-Fiscal Mix: Long-Run Implications", 1986, AER
• "A Case for Preserving Regulatory Distinctions", 1987, Challenge.
• Policies for Prosperity: Essays in a Keynesian mode, 1987.
• "Inventories, Investment, Inflation and Taxes" 1988, in Chikan and Lovell, editors, Economics of Inventory Management
• "Growth and Distribution: A Neoclassical Kaldor–Robinson Exercise", 1989, Cambridge JE
• "The Optimal Cash Balance Proposition: Maurice Allais' Priority" with W.J. Baumol, 1989, JEL 
• "On the Theory of Macroeconomic Policy", 1990, De Economist.
• "On Crotty's Critique of Q-Theory" with W.C. Brainard, 1990, JPKE 
• "The Macroeconomics of Government Finance" with M. Haliassos, 1990, in Friedman and Hahn, editors,  Handbook of Monetary Economics - intro
• "On the Internationalization of Portfolios" with W.C. Brainard, 1992, Oxford EP 
• "An Old Keynesian Counterattacks", 1992, Eastern EJ 
• "Price Flexibility and Output Stability: An Old Keynesian view", 1993, JEP.
• "Defense Spending, the Budget Deficit, and the U.S. Economy"1993 Keynote speech at ECAAR
• "International Currency Regimes, Capital Mobility and Macroeconomic Policy", 1993, Greek ER
• "Poverty in Relation to Macroeconomic Trends, Cycles, and Policies", 1994, in Danziger et al., editors, Confronting Poverty
• "Democratic Values and Capitalist Efficiency: The Liberal Reconciliation." 1995, in Taitte, editor, Moral Values in Liberalism and Conservatism
• "The Natural Rate as New Classical Macroeconomics", 1995, in Cross, editor, The Natural Rate of Unemployment 
• "Some Economic Consequences of the Information Explosion", Keynote Speech, 1995,  Nobels for the Future
• "A Currency Transactions Tax, Why and How", 1996, Open Economies Review
• "A Liberal Agenda: Response to R. Freeman", 1996, Boston Review
• "Clinton's Second Term And The American Economy", 1996
• "Thinking About A "New World Order"", 1996 Keynote speech at ECAAR
• "An Overview of The General Theory" 1997, in Harcourt and Riach, editors, A Second Edition of The General Theory
• "Irving Fisher (1867–1947) in Retrospect", 1997, AER
• "Why We Need Sand In the Market's Gears", 1997, Washington Post
• "Thoughts on Indexing the Elderly", 1997, FAS
  "Judgemental Cuts in Consumer Price Indexation Are a Bad Idea," with R. Solow and K. Arrow, 1997, FAS
• "Monetary Policy: Recent Theory and Practice", 1998, in Wagner, editor, Current Issues in Monetary Economics
• "Flawed Fund: the IMF's misplaced prioirities" with G. Ranis, 1998, New Republic
• "Europe, Japan and the Ghost of John Maynard Keynes", 1998
• "Financial Globalization", 1999, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
• "Financial Globalization: Can National Currencies Survive?" 1999, Annual World Bank Conference of Development Economics
• "Floating Currencies is the Only Way", 1999

Resources on James Tobin

• HET Pages: the Neo-Keynesian World, Money and Growth , Monetarism
• James Tobin Page at the Cowles Foundation (here's another)
• Tobin circa 1962 - Photo wiith J.F. Kennedy, Photo at the Council of Economic Advisors, Tobin Portrait
• "James Tobin," Lives of the Laureates, edited by William Breit and Roger W. Spencer, MIT Press, 1986.
• Autobiography of Tobin at Nobel site.
• Press release of Nobel award (1981).
• "Keynesian Economics" with James Tobin - Audio or Video Stream (RAM) at Idea Channel
• Interview with Tobin, at Le Monde (in French)
• Interview with Tobin at Region magazine
• Interview with Tobin, at Radio Australia
• Interview with Tobin, at Social Development Review
• ET Interview: Professor James Tobin with Robert J. Shiller
• "Reigning in the Markets: Interview with Tobin", UNESCO Courier, 1999 - French version
• "Yale Professor Wins Nobel in Economics," Boston Globe, October 14, 1981
• "Tobin Blasts Reagonomics", Boston Globe, 1981
• James Tobin's Columns at Project Syndicate
• The Yale Economics Department: Memories and Musings of Past Leaders
• Nobel Direct: James Tobin
• "James Tobin to Receive Bar Association Award", 1997, Yale News
• Tobin Profile at Elsevier/North-Holland
• Tobin Page at Britannica.com
• Tobin Page at Britannica Guide to the Nobel Prizes
• Tobin Page at Nobel Prize Internet Archive
• Tobin page at PEI
• Tobin at Bartleby
• Tobin at VWLer.de
• Biography of Tobin at Nobelists for the Future
• The "Tobin Lounge" at the Cowles Foundation
• Tobin Page at Laura Forgette
• Capital Controls (Tobin Tax) website at Halifax Initiative
• The Tobin Tax Initiative website
• "The Feasibility of an International Tobin Tax", 1999 Economic Foreign Affairs
• "Time for a Tobin Tax? Some practical and political arguments", at Oxfam
• "Time for a Tobin Tax", 1999 FRBSF Weekly Letter
• "The Tobin Tax and Exchange Rate Stability" by P. B. Spahn, World Bank Finance and Development
• "Feasibility of the Tobin Tax" by Rodney Schmidt, Canadian Department of Finance
• "The Tobin Tax for the greater global good" by Anthony Clunies Ross, World Paper
• "Vive la taxe Tobin!" by Bernard Cassen, Le Monde diplomatique
• "James Tobin: Le théoricien du libéralisme à visage humain" by Francis Gradoux at Webdo (in French)
• Variations sur la taxe Tobin at Attac.org (Original Version at Le Monde diplomatique)
• "James Tobin no combate à especulação" by Senator Eduardo Suplicy of Brazil (in Portuguese)
• "The Revolutionary Front of Dr. James Tobin", at Prensa Obrera (in French, in Spanish) 
• The Tobin Tax: Democratising Globalisation at NIGD
• Tobin Tax Principles at JusticePlus (in French)
• Campagna Tobin Tax (Italian)
• House of Lords debate on the Tobin Tax, June 2000
• "A Handful of Sand in the Wheels of Financial Speculation" by Alex C. Michalos
• Une taxe remise en cause par James Tobin ! 
• Tobin Tax at CEPR
• Tobin extracts
• "Tobin Tax as a mechanism to finance de-mining" by Robin Collins, UN 
• "Visionary Vote for the Tobin Tax in Canadian Parliament", Natural Life
• Model Resolution Supporting the Tobin Tax at Global Exchange
• "Le tax tobin: un outil pour mondialiser la justice fiscale"
• Links on Tobin Tax
• Tobin at Economistas.org (Spanish)
• Bibliography - Best Sources on Financing Alternatives, and Tobin Taxes
• "Tobin's paper on liquidity preference" by Jamal Munshi, 1991
• Tobin at NAS