The Tobin Project Update for 2015 is now available.
Recent News
The Tobin Project is now accepting applications for two programs: the Graduate Fellowship and Workshop and the Prospectus Development Workshop.
The Tobin Project seeks exceptional individuals to join our collaborative and entrepreneurial team as Research Analysts. Research Analysts will work with leading scholars and Tobin Project leadership to conceptualize, generate, and strengthen new research aimed at solving important problems facing society. Projects will be related to our core initiatives on Government & Markets, Institutions of Democracy, Economic Inequality, and National Security.
The Tobin Project seeks an exceptional individual to join our collaborative and entrepreneurial team as a Research Analyst focusing on our Inequality and Decision Making Initiative. The Research Analyst will work with leading behavioral social scientists and Tobin Project leadership to conceptualize, generate, and strengthen new research on the effects of economic inequality on individual behavior and decision making.
On May 29-31, the Tobin Project held its inaugural Prospectus Development Workshop. Seven graduate students embarking on innovative research in the social sciences joined Tobin staff and alumni of Tobin’s Graduate Student Forum for a weekend of discussion and critique of the participants’ dissertation prospectuses.
The Tobin Project seeks outstanding applicants eager to join our team and work toward our mission of catalyzing cutting-edge social science research on the nation’s most important unanswered questions. We are looking for professionals or recent graduates with exceptional creative thinking, project management, and writing skills for a variety of full-time roles, and we will be accepting applications on a rolling basis.
The Tobin Project has selected its 2015-16 Graduate Student Fellows and the participants for the first Prospectus Development Workshop. We welcomed the GSF participants to the Tobin Project with a reception in early May, and we look forward to meeting the Prospectus Development Workshop participants when the weekend-long event convenes later this month.
The Cornell University Global Finance Initiative (GFI) and Meridian 180 are seeking applicants for an interdisciplinary graduate student forum on “The Changing Politics of Central Banking,” funded in part by the Tobin Project. The program will run from May 2015 through April 2016. Applications are due on Thursday, May 7, 2015. More information from GFI and Meridian 180 follows, and further information is available at the link below.
The Tobin Project is now accepting applications for two programs: the Graduate Student Forum and Fellowship and the new Prospectus Development Workshop.
The 2014 Tobin Project Update has been published – read it below, or see all of our Updates here. The Update covers the year’s developments in all of Tobin's research areas, featuring our Corporation and American Democracy initiative, new research on the physiological and psychological consequences of economic inequality, events with scholars and policymakers on Preventing Regulatory Capture and Sustainable Security, and more.
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At a 2011 meeting for authors of the Preventing Capture volume, Sabeel Rahman (Harvard Law School) discusses an idea with Richard Revesz (NYU Law School).