James Tobin, a leading American economist who was awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in economics for his work on the portfolio selection theory, which analyzed changes in financial markets and their ...

James Tobin was a Neo-Keynesian economist who received the 1981 Nobel Prize in economics for his research on the financial system and its impact on inflation and employment. He is known for ...

James Tobin was an economist at Yale University for many decades. In the 1960s he briefly left the university to served on President John F. Kennedy's Council of Economics Advisers.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- James Tobin, a retired Yale University professor who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in economics and was one of the most influential economists of his time, has died at 84.

ops! The antiglobalistas just lost their patron saint. Economist James Tobin, he of the famous "Tobin tax," and the unlikely hero of antitrade balladiers, militant protesters and their google-eyed ...

Such levies have been dubbed “Tobin taxes” after James Tobin (pictured), a Nobel Laureate in economics, who in 1972 first suggested taxing financial transactions. But do Tobin taxes actually work?

JAMES Tobin, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in economics, arguably the most brilliant and influential macro-economist since Keynes, died March 11 at the age of 84. He was admired not only as a ...

James Tobin, the Nobel-prize winning economist who first proposed a tax on currency speculators, has died at the age of 84. Mr Tobin was one of the last of Keynesian economists and a former economic ...

The US economist James Tobin, who died on March 11th aged 84, was a 1981 Nobel prizewinner and former Kennedy adviser best known… The US economist James Tobin, who died on March 11th aged 84 ...

Tsuji / Getty Images The Tobin tax is a tax levied on spot currency conversions, with the intention of disincentivizing short-term currency speculation, named after economist James Tobin.