James Tobin, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where James Tobin comes up
Scott Bessent - Macro Maven (EP.415)
- ▶ 46:22 Scott Bessent Was a Japanese professor emeritus in the Yale Econ department who had been a student of Tobin's, complete Keynesian.
Charley Ellis - Figuring Out Investing and Vanguard (Capital Allocators, EP.286)
- ▶ 59:11 Charlie Ellis And he was working at Salomon Brothers, where he had been sent by Jim Tobin, the Nobel Prize winner, who was his principal teacher at Yale.
Charley Ellis – The Magic of David Swensen (Capital Allocators, EP.197)
- ▶ 18:03 Charlie Ellis He was one of the very top people to go through the PhD program in economics at Yale, and Jim Tobin was his dissertation advisor and senior mentor, and Jim was all his life the smartest person in the room, sort of like Janet Yellen today,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:09 Charlie Ellis Because after he got his dissertation approved and his orals approved, he turned to Jim Tobin and said, well, Jim, now that I've been cleared, which courses am I going to teach? 2 times in the scene
Laurence Siegel – Current Myths and Long-Term Optimism (Capital Allocators, EP.137)
- ▶ 39:17 Larry Siegel Providing a poor product for a high price don't deserve to survive, and they're going to be in trouble no matter how their endowments do, but if you provide a good product at a fair price, the endowment is a mixture of working capital and,…
Ben Inker – Value Investing at GMO (First Meeting, EP.17)
Jason Klein – Investing to Cure Cancer (Capital Allocators, EP.28)
- ▶ 49:40 Jason Klein So if you look at all of the traditional valuation metrics, uh, Cape, Schiller, stock markets, GDP, Tobin's Q, those, almost all of those metrics are top decile type figures at this moment.