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...what the US is doing.” Sperling added that because of the US’s strong economy, its industries are forced to continually innovate. He recommended national programs to help communities diversify their work forces. Much of the audience consisted of past and present students of Mankiw??s introductory economics course, Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” while others had been lured by the fame of the Goliath scholars taking on the great debates in modern economics...
...professor typically wakes up in his 1930s brick colonial in Wellesley between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m. to take his border terrier Tobin for a walk. Tobin, who is named after Nobel Prize-winning economist James Tobin, is the brown-furred successor to Keynes, Mankiw??s last dog. The real-life Tobin was a follower of economist John Maynard Keynes, as well...
...Even Mankiw??s first conversation with his wife was about public policy. “We were both grad students. I was at MIT, and she was at Harvard at the Kennedy School,” he recalls over a Greenhouse Café salad in his Littauer Center office, where economics journals of every color are crammed onto massive shelves and complicated formulas are scribbled on a chalkboard...
...packed Sanders Theatre of freshmen hanging on his every word, the former Chairman of the Council of Economic advisors strikes fear in the hearts of men. A lone sophomore among the ’09ers, each of them one rhetorical flourish away from disproving at least one major theorem, Mankiw??s axioms inspire me against my will. “Economics… will help you understand the world in which you live,” according to the class textbook, and “make you a more astute participant in the economy...
...Laibson says that Mankiw??s enthusiasm and affability could keep students coming to Sanders even if the number of lectures were increased...