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Article: From the classroom to the White House: Economics according to N. Gregory Mankiw
- Article from:
- Dollars & Sense
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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CopyrightCopyright Economic Affairs Bureau Jul/Aug 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Presidential advisor Mankiw's influential textbook gives students a biased introduction to economics and justifies the Bush policy agenda.
"Let those who will, write the nation's laws if I can write its textbooks," Paul Samuelson, author of the one-time leading economics textbook, once boasted. Now N. Gregory Mankiw (pronounced "Mankew") is about to do both. He's the newly confirmed chair of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, the three-member group that gives direct economic advice to the president. And he is author of a best-selling college economics text. Thus, Mankiw is powerfully positioned, bringing his highly regarded academic credentials to the Bush economic plan, while ...