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Article: Bush Taps Harvard Professor to Lead Council of Economic Advisers.
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- February 27, 2003
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By D.C. Denison, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 27--Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw, author of the world's most popular college-level introductory economics textbook, last night was nominated to become chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers.
A free-market advocate known for illustrating his texts with colorful, easy-to-understand examples as well as for his more advanced work on monetary policy and other topics, Mankiw succeeds R. Glenn Hubbard. Mankiw, 45, needs to be confirmed by the Senate.
As head of the council, known as CEA, Mankiw (pronounced man-kew) will have the rare opportunity ...