The Department of Economics The Grunberg Lecture Series Fifth Grunberg Lecture - 1992
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Professor James Tobin
Yale University
Nobel Prize in Economics, 1981
"The War on Poverty: Have We Lost It?"
Professor Tobin is an internationally known authority in macroeconomics, financial markets, econometrics, and monetary and fiscal policy. He won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in portfolio theory, providing an understanding of how people behave when they acquire different assets and incur debt. He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors under John F. Kennedy and has written extensively on economic policy. Professor Tobin's interest in income distribution policies to diminish poverty led to papers on negative income tax that are now considered classic. He has maintained his concern for policy in this area.
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- The First Lecture, 1988, Herbert A. Simon (Nobel 1978)
- The Second Lecture, 1989,
William Cooper (Von Neumann Medal
1982)
- The Third Lecture, 1990,
Franco Modigliani (Nobel 1985)
- The Fourth Lecture, 1991,
Richard Cyret
- The Fifth Lecture, 1992,
James Tobin (Nobel 1981)
- The Sixth Lecture, 1993, Robert Solow (Nobel 1987)
- The Seventh Lecture, 1994, Kenneth Arrow (Nobel 1972)
- The Eight Lecture, 1995, Lawrence Klein (Nobel 1980)
- The Ninth Lecture, 1996, Harry M. Markowitz (Nobel 1990)
- The Tenth Lecture, 1997, Douglas C. North (Nobel 1993)
- The Eleventh Lecture, 1998, James A. Mirrlees (Nobel 1996)
- The Twelfth Lecture, 1999, Robert W. Fogel (Nobel 1993)
- The Thirteenth Lecture, 2000, Herbert A. Simon (Nobel 1977)
- The Fourteenth Lecture, 2001, Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel 2001)
- The Fifteenth Lecture, 2002, James A. Heckman (Nobel 2000)
- The Sixthteenth Lecture, 2004, Vernon L. Smith (Nobel 2002)
- The Seventeenth Lecture, 2006, Finn Kydland (Nobel 2004)
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