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According to an online blog post by Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute, Mankiw had previously criticized certain supply-side arguments—namely, that lowering tax rates could actually generate more tax revenue—and then reversed his opinion while working in Washington...
Mankiw clarified on his own online blog that he opposed only the supply-side argument for tax cuts but that he thought the 2003 Bush tax cuts were justified for other reasons—though he himself was not actually an advisor to the President when those tax cuts were implemented...
Nyhan then lists on his blog specific quotes from then-Press Secretary Ari Fleisher, Vice President Dick Cheney, and President Bush, all of whom said in the early months of 2003 that the tax cuts would lead to more tax revenue...
...Bradford Delong ’82, a prominent economist at UC Berkeley, also weighed in on the debate on his blog, questioning whether it is “worth the sacrifice of the economics profession’s outside credibility and the further confusion of the public that is entailed when good economists defend bad policies on the outside that they are working to change on the inside...
Also a strong proponent of women’s rights, Crawford kept a personal blog entitled “Nequitia Mea,” on which she described herself as a “pissy feminist Ph.D. candidate and proud...