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...daily updates at the tune of 20,000 page views per day. While it’s ostensibly to keep in touch with his Ec10 students, it’s attracted a global readership. But he does have two Facebook fan groups started by non-Harvard students. One, the Greg Mankiw Fan Club, has over 1,000 members who span the globe...
Bryce W. Stucki started the “Greg puts the ‘man’ in Mankiw” Facebook group which sports over 100 members. Mankiw himself was a member, at least until he deleted his profile...
...it’s not all intellectual firepower that gets the fans to keep clicking. The founder of the “Greg Mankiw Fan Club” describes the professor’s appeal as personal as well as academic. “If you read [the blog] a lot, you get an idea of his personality. I do consider him a mentor. I think he’s a really nice guy, a really good guy, some one to look...
Mankiw has proven so lovable that at one point, an “I love Greg Mankiw” t-shirt was sold on Amazon.com that has since been taken down. But even with apparel, office hours aren’t as crowded as his course—about five to ten students generally show...
...surrounding Ferguson is based more on admiration and less on fanaticism. “I don’t think people worship the ground he walks on,” she says. “If I were to make a comparison, with the way people kind of idolize Greg Mankiw, i’m not sure if you’d find that same level of idolatry [with Ferguson...