James Tobin

Robert Dimand is a professor of economics at Brock University, Canada. In 2012-13 he was President of the History of Economics Society. His first book, The Origins of the Keynesian Revolution (1988), was based on his Yale PhD dissertation, supervised by James Tobin. He is the co-author of a book on the history of game theory, editor or co-editor of a dozen books, and author of more than ninety refereed journal articles.

"As a former student of, and teaching assistant to, James Tobin, Robert Dimand's motivation for preparing a monograph on his former dissertation supervisor is self-evident. ... The introduction provides a brief biographical overview of Tobin ... . The author's ideas and the content of the book are substantive; and the scholarly and balanced nature of the judgements within each of the chapters is of a high standard." (Michael McLure, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 23 (3), January, 2016)

• Introduction 1. An American Keynesian 2. Transforming the IS-LM Model Sector by Sector 3. Consumption, Rationing, and Logit Estimation: Tobin as an Econometrician 4. Portfolio Balance, Money Demand and Money Creation 5. Tobin's q and the Theory of Investment 6. Money and Long-Run Economic Growth 7. To Improve the World: Limiting the Domain of Inequality 8. Taming Speculation: The Tobin Tax 9. Tobin's Legacy and Modern Macroeconomics