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Principles of Economics is the standard textbook for American economics departments' introductory classes. [6] [7] [8] The current publisher Cengage claims it is the "most popular economics textbook". [9] 10 Principles [ edit ]

The students concluded their letter by stating that they would instead be attending the underway Occupy Boston demonstration. Counterprotesters showed up in that class, and Mankiw replied to his students in an article in The New York Times. [62] An editorial in the student-run Harvard Crimson condemned the protest [63] by Nicholas Gregory Mankiw ( / ˈ m æ n k j uː/; born February 3, 1958) is an American macroeconomist who is currently the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. [4] Mankiw is best known in academia for his work on New Keynesian economics. [5]In the New Economics: Fast-Food Factories?", The New York Times, February 20, 2004. Retrieved March 28, 2008. Mankiw is a conservative, [11] [12] [13] [14] and has been an economic adviser to several Republican politicians. From 2003 to 2005, Mankiw was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush. In 2006, he became an economic adviser to Mitt Romney, and worked with Romney during his presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012. In October 2019, he announced that he was no longer a Republican because of his discontent with President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. [15] Early life and education [ edit ] In May 2003, President George W. Bush appointed Mankiw as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Mankiw served in that post from 2003 to 2005 and was followed by Harvey S. Rosen and then Ben Bernanke. As chairman, Mankiw was part of a George W. Bush administration effort seeking greater oversight of two government-sponsored enterprises: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In a November 2003 speech to a conference of bank supervisors, [41] he said: Andrews, Edmund L. "Economics Adviser Learns the Principles of Politics", The New York Times, February 26, 2004. Accessed September 19, 2019. "He describes himself as a lifelong Republican, which sets him apart from many Harvard colleagues. He distributed campaign literature for Richard Nixon in the early 1970's, and he grew up in Cranford, a fairly affluent suburb in New Jersey, the son of an engineer and a teacher."

Isidore, Chris (November 2, 2011). "O.W.S. stages walk-out of Harvard econ class". CNN. Jose DelReal, a reporter with The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, said about 60 students participated in the walk-out. Bofinger, Peter (2020-01-03). "Best of Mankiw: Errors and Tangles in the World's Best-Selling Economics Textbooks". Institute for New Economic Thinking . Retrieved 2021-01-06. Ball, Laurence; Romer, David (1990). "Real Rigidities and the Non-Neutrality of Money" (PDF). The Review of Economic Studies. 57 (2): 183–203. doi: 10.2307/2297377. JSTOR 2297377. A survey of economics professors named Mankiw their second favorite living economist under the age of 60, just after Paul Krugman and just before Daron Acemoglu. [76] Schwartz, John (7 February 2017). " 'A Conservative Climate Solution': Republican Group Calls for Carbon Tax". The New York Times.The book introduces 10 principles of economics "that supposedly represent the heart of economic wisdom". [10] [11] Andres, Edmund L. "A Salesman for Bush's Tax Plan Who Has Belittled Similar Ideas", The New York Times, February 28, 2003. Smith, Noah (13 January 2017). "Tribal warfare in economics a thing of the past". The Australian Financial Review. Fairfax Media. Bloomberg. [Joseph] Stiglitz is a hero to the left, while [Greg] Mankiw is a small-government conservative. Avlon, John (28 February 2013). "The Pro-Freedom Republicans Are Coming: 131 Sign Gay Marriage Brief". The Daily Beast– via www.thedailybeast.com. New and updated coverage throughout covers the Covid19 pandemic and much more. Highlights include more in income inequality in a new appendix to Chapter 3, a new case study on President Trump’s trade policies in Chapter 6, a new case study on unemployment insurance during the pandemic of 2020 in Chapter 7, materials on long-run economic growth has been rearranged and spread out from two chapters to three (Chapters 8, 9, and 10), bringing related topics closer together and offering students a more accessible introduction to the subject, a new case study on the misallocation of capital and labor in India and China.in chapter 10, and an extensive new section on the Covid-19 Recession of 2020 in Chapter 11.