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James Tobin

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Part of the book series: Great Thinkers in Economics (GTE)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction

    • Robert W. Dimand
    Pages 1-9
  3. An American Keynesian

    • Robert W. Dimand
    Pages 10-23
  4. Transforming the IS-LM Model Sector By Sector

    • Robert W. Dimand
    Pages 24-43
  5. Tobin’s q and the Theory of Investment

    • Robert W. Dimand
    Pages 73-89
  6. Money and Long-Run Economic Growth

    • Robert W. Dimand
    Pages 90-105
  7. Taming Speculation: The Tobin Tax

    • Robert W. Dimand
    Pages 113-129
  8. Tobin’s Legacy and Modern Macroeconomics

    • Robert W. Dimand
    Pages 130-155
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 156-197

About this book

James Tobin, 1981 Nobel laureate in economics, was the outstanding monetary economist among American Keynesian economists. This book, the first written about James Tobin, examines his leading role as a Keynesian macroeconomist and monetary economist, and considers the continuing relevance of his ideas.

Reviews

“As a former student of, and teaching assistant to, James Tobin, Robert Dimand’s motivation for preparing a monograph on his former dissertation supervisor is self-evident. … The introduction provides a brief biographical overview of Tobin … . The author’s ideas and the content of the book are substantive; and the scholarly and balanced nature of the judgements within each of the chapters is of a high standard.” (Michael McLure, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 23 (3), January, 2016)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Brock University, Canada

    Robert W. Dimand

About the author

Robert Dimand is a professor of economics at Brock University, Canada. In 2012-13 he was President of the History of Economics Society. His first book, The Origins of the Keynesian Revolution (1988), was based on his Yale PhD dissertation, supervised by James Tobin. He is the co-author of a book on the history of game theory, editor or co-editor of a dozen books, and author of more than ninety refereed journal articles.

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