James Tobin was America’s most distinguished Keynesian economist, whose path-breaking theoretical work has demonstrated that Keynes’s original theories can be adapted to deal with modern macroeconomic problems. This significant volume presents a selection of those papers which in Professor...

Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economic policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin’s view, the welfare of populations...

The juxtaposition of Kennedy and Reagan approaches to economic problems is particularly instructive in that they express the two major - and quite different - approaches of macroeconomic policy in the past three decades: the 1962 Kennedy Camelot which relied on traditional Keynesian economics,...