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Article: BUSH TAPS MANKIW HARVARD PROFESSOR CHOSEN TO LEAD ECONOMIC ADVISERS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 27, 2003
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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 of being the primary explainer of
economic principles to two very different audiences: college students
and President Bush and his ...