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New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center Plaza
No full textWorld Trade Center Plaza (Tobin Plaza) NE, New York CityColo
James Tobin : an appreciation of his contribution to economics.
No full textJim Tobin, who died on March 11, 2002 at the age of 84, was one of giants of economics of the second half of the twentieth century and the greatest macroeconomist of his generation. Tobin’s influence on macroeconomic theory is so pervasive - so much part of our professional ‘acquis’ - that many younger economists often are not even aware that it is his ideas they are elaborating, testing, criticising, refuting or re-inventing. In this Appreciation, I consider Tobin’s scholarly contributions, made over a period of more than 50 years. Tobin received the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize “for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices”. I consider his contributions to mean-variance portfolio demand and asset pricing theory, especially the Portfolio Separation Theorem; pitfalls in financial model building; portfolio balance and flow of funds models and the ‘credit channel’; the life-cycle model and social security; econometric methodology, including the Tobit estimator and his pioneering work using both time series and cross-sectional data to estimate food demand functions; economic growth; Tobin’s q; the ‘Tobin Tax’ ; the monetary and fiscal policy effectiveness debate, first with Milton Friedman and then with the New Classical Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle schools; and Tobin’s approach to methodological questions including microfoundations and aggregation.
James Tobin: An Appreciation of his Contribution to Economics
No full textJim Tobin, who died on March 11, 2002 at the age of 84, was one of giants of economics of the second half of the twentieth century and the greatest macroeconomist of his generation. Tobin's influence on macroeconomic theory is so pervasive - so much part of our professional 'acquis' - that many younger economists often are not even aware that it is his ideas they are elaborating, testing, criticising, refuting or re-inventing. In this Appreciation, I consider Tobin's scholarly contributions, made over a period of more than 50 years. Tobin received the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices'. I consider his contributions to mean-variance portfolio demand and asset pricing theory, especially the Portfolio Separation Theorem; pitfalls in financial model building; portfolio balance and flow of funds models and the 'credit channel'; the life-cycle model and social security; econometric methodology, including the Tobit estimator and his pioneering work using both time series and cross-sectional data to estimate food demand functions; economic growth; Tobin's the 'Tobin Tax'; the monetary and fiscal policy effectiveness debate, first with Milton Friedman and then with the New Classical Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle schools; and Tobin's approach to methodological questions including microfoundations and aggregation
Shadows of the East; or slight sketches of Scenery, Persons, and cusoms, from observations during a tour in 1853 and 1854 in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece. By Catherine Tobin with maps and illustrations. London Longman, Brown, Green, and Lo
No full textPreface: by the authorDedication: by the author to James Lord Bishop of CorkIllustration: 20 (Maps ,Views ,varia ,)Pagination: PP12+256P+16PPVolumes: 1Text Genre:JournalEpilogue: as conclusionIllustration: 20 (χάρτες ,τοπία ,άλλα θέματα ,
Administrative Files - Conferences and Events - Visual Culture and Archives Symposium - April 04, 2013 - Part 19 - Introduction, "From Film to Screen: Images, Editing, and Archives"
No full textJim Tobin (Author, Historian, and Associate Professor of Journalism at Miami University of Ohio) introduces Jay Cassidy and his presentation "From Film to Screen: Images, Editing, and Archives"http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/97396/1/040413_19_Tobin.mp
Margaret Breen giving a talk on Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
No full textPhoto of Margaret Breen (University of Connecticut) discussing author Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson. Breen gave a talk titled “Queer Translations: Prime-Stevenson’s Imre (1906) and The Intersexes (1908) and the Emergence of Homosexual Identity”. This talk was from the event German Discovery of Sex: Medicine, Activism, Literature which took place on April 16, 2011 as part of the Henry J. Leir Chair Programming for the 2010-2011 season. Robert Tobin was the Henry J. Leir Chair from 2008 up until his passing in 2022.
These are Robert Tobin\u27s photos, originally hosted on his WordPress site provided by Clark University.https://commons.clarku.edu/tobindiscphotos/1009/thumbnail.jp
Sophie Freud
No full textSophie Freud (granddaughter of Sigmund and noted professor, psychiatric social worker, and author) in the audience (bottom left) at the symposium Global Freud . This event, which celebrated the centennial of Sigmund Freud\u27s visit to Clark University by discussing his reception around the world, took place on November 21, 2009 as part of the Henry J. Leir Chair Programming for the 2009-2010 season. Robert Tobin was the Henry J. Leir Chair from 2008 up until his passing in 2022.
These are Robert Tobin\u27s photos, originally hosted on his WordPress site provided by Clark University.https://commons.clarku.edu/tobinglobalphotos/1003/thumbnail.jp
The Tobin site - 36Cw27: an archaic manifestation in northwest Pennsylvania
No full textAuthor presents the results of arhaeological excavations of the Tobin Site and concludes that this site represents a summer camp
of a small band or extended family group of the Brewerton
or closely related culture of the Late Archaic period. Illustrations and maps are included
The tobin tax: A review of the evidence
No full textAbstract: The debate about the Tobin Tax, and other financial transaction taxes (FTT), gives rise to strong views both for and against. Unfortunately, little of this debate is based on the now considerable body of evidence about the impact of such taxes. This review attempts to synthesise what we know from the available theoretical and empirical literature about the impact of FTTs on volatility in financial markets. We also review the literature on how a Tobin Tax might be implemented, the amount of revenue that it might realistically produce, and the likely incidence of the tax. We conclude that, contrary to what is often assumed, a Tobin Tax is feasible and, if appropriately designed, could make a significant contribution to revenue without causing major distortions. However, it would be unlikely to reduce market volatility and could even increase it. JEL Classification: G15, G18, H22, H27 Key Words: Tobin tax, financial transaction taxes, volatility, revenue, incidence, feasibility The corresponding author. We are grateful for the participants of a Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation workshop for useful comments and suggestions. Stacey Townsend has provided excellent administrative support. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from DFID for the research undertaken in this paper
Digging Into Data White Paper:Trading Consequences
No full textScholars interested in nineteenth-century global economic history face a voluminous historical record. Conventional approaches to primary source research on the economic and environmental implications of globalised commodity flows typically restrict researchers to specific locations or a small handful of commodities. By taking advantage of cutting-edge computational tools, the project was able to address much larger data sets for historical research, and thereby provides historians with the means to develop new data-driven research questions. In particular, this project has demonstrated that text mining techniques applied to tens of thousands of documents about nineteenth-century commodity trading can yield a novel understanding of how economic forces connected distant places all over the globe and how efforts to generate wealth from natural resources impacted on local environments.The large-scale findings that result from the application of these new methodologies would be barely feasible using conventional research methods. Moreover, the project vividly demonstrates how the digital humanities can benefit from trans-disciplinary collaboration between humanists, computational linguists and information visualisation experts. Important facets of this project include:· After considerable difficulty and lengthy negotiations, we acquired significantly more historical documents than we originally expected. The full corpus exceeds 7 billion word tokens, which is very big data by humanist standards.· Lexicon creation proved to be one of the most challenging and interesting aspects of the project, requiring interdisciplinary skills in archival research, linked data, text mining and knowledge of the historical context.· The project has identified almost 2,000 commodities that were regularly traded in the nineteenth century, two orders of magnitude more than are standardly studied by historians.· Historical sources that have undergone Optical Character Recognition (OCR) are challenging to process and this, in combination with the particular questions asked by historians, required the text mining team to develop new approaches and new text processing tools for the project.· The geospatial nature of the data lent itself well to an interactive visualisation that displays commodities in relation to locations on a world map. The same commodities can also be visualised on a timeline to show how trading evolved over the nineteenth century.· The relational database and visualisation software is well advanced and ready for use in historical research. The database can by used by historians for unguided research aimed at developing new research questions and identifying crucial primary source texts related to a specific commodit
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