1918 - 2002
James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He contributed to the development of key ideas in the Keynesian economics of his generation and advocated government intervention in particular to stabilize output and avoid recessions. His academic work included pioneering contributions to the study of investment, monetary and fiscal policy and financial markets. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Tobin has received more than 409,857 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. James Tobin is the 70th most popular economist (down from 47th in 2019), the 907th most popular biography from United States (down from 704th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Economist.
James Tobin was a Nobel Prize-winning economist who was most famous for his work on the Tobin tax.
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Among economists, James Tobin ranks 70 out of 315. Before him are Henry Mintzberg, Robert Lucas Jr., Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Jacques Delors, James Mill, and Wang Anshi. After him are Reinhard Selten, Tansu Çiller, Trygve Haavelmo, Nikolai Kondratiev, Jean-Claude Trichet, and James M. Buchanan.
1939 - Present
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 64
1937 - 2023
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 65
1851 - 1914
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 66
1925 - 2023
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 67
1773 - 1836
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 68
1021 - 1086
HPI: 62.85
Rank: 69
1918 - 2002
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 70
1930 - 2016
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 71
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 72
1911 - 1999
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 73
1892 - 1938
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 74
1942 - Present
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 75
1919 - 2013
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 76
Among people born in 1918, James Tobin ranks 29. Before him are Chaim Herzog, Rosalia Lombardo, Franco Modigliani, W. Eugene Smith, Frederick Reines, and Maurice Druon. After him are Ernst Otto Fischer, Muriel Spark, Kai Siegbahn, Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Martin Ryle, and Bertram Brockhouse. Among people deceased in 2002, James Tobin ranks 27. Before him are Camilo José Cela, Linda Lovelace, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Robert Nozick, Nándor Hidegkuti, and Fritz Walter. After him are Jonas Savimbi, Raf Vallone, Abu Nidal, Alexander Prokhorov, Juan Alberto Schiaffino, and Ne Win.
1918 - 1997
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 23
1918 - 1920
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 24
1918 - 2003
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 25
1918 - 1978
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 26
1918 - 1998
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 27
1918 - 2009
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 28
1918 - 2002
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 29
1918 - 2007
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 30
1918 - 2006
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 31
1918 - 2007
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 32
1918 - 2006
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 33
1918 - 1984
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 34
1918 - 2003
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 35
1916 - 2002
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 21
1949 - 2002
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 22
1930 - 2002
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 23
1938 - 2002
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 24
1922 - 2002
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 25
1920 - 2002
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 26
1918 - 2002
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 27
1934 - 2002
HPI: 62.37
Rank: 28
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 29
1937 - 2002
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 30
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 31
1925 - 2002
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 32
1910 - 2002
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 33
Among people born in United States, James Tobin ranks 907 out of 18,182. Before him are Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), Billy Bob Thornton (1955), Robert Burns Woodward (1917), Barbara Stanwyck (1907), Tom Waits (1949), and Willis Lamb (1913). After him are John Jacob Astor IV (1864), Barry Nelson (1917), Steve Reeves (1926), Robert Vaughn (1932), Gina Haspel (1956), and Edward C. Tolman (1886).
1913 - 1994
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 901
1955 - Present
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 902
1917 - 1979
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 903
1907 - 1990
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 904
1949 - Present
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 905
1913 - 2008
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 906
1918 - 2002
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 907
1864 - 1912
HPI: 62.76
Rank: 908
1917 - 2007
HPI: 62.75
Rank: 909
1926 - 2000
HPI: 62.75
Rank: 910
1932 - 2016
HPI: 62.75
Rank: 911
1956 - Present
HPI: 62.74
Rank: 912
1886 - 1959
HPI: 62.74
Rank: 913
Among economists born in United States, James Tobin ranks 17. Before him are W. Edwards Deming (1900), Irving Fisher (1867), Robert Solow (1924), Theodore Schultz (1902), Oliver E. Williamson (1932), and Robert Lucas Jr. (1937). After him are James M. Buchanan (1919), Murray Rothbard (1926), Charles Cooley (1864), Richard Thaler (1945), Harry Markowitz (1927), and Edmund Phelps (1933).
1900 - 1993
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 11
1867 - 1947
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 12
1924 - 2023
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 13
1902 - 1998
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 14
1932 - 2020
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 15
1937 - 2023
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 16
1918 - 2002
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 17
1919 - 2013
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 18
1926 - 1995
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 19
1864 - 1929
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 20
1945 - Present
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 21
1927 - 2023
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 22
1933 - Present
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 23