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...premier classes of the undergraduate Harvard education, will face a fork in the road this fall when Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 ends his 21-year stint atop the course. Handing the reins to Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, the economics department has chosen the correct path for the course, regardless of the gripes of liberal opponents. Ec 10 undoubtedly presents a conservative view of the world to its many students, but it is a classical economic approach. Thus, Mankiw’s intention to inherit the course and teach it with...
...times even moderate viewpoints. Yes, in an economy without externalities, taxes will create a dead weight loss and are therefore harmful to the economy. As a result, students in an introductory economics class ought to be taught that taxes are, in fact, bad. We are pleased that Mankiw has shown no intentions of caving into critics of this “conservative” approach...
Some undergraduates got an early opportunity to meet Mankiw yesterday, when he and Feldstein appeared at a Faculty Club party for students who had done exceptionally well in Ec 10 last semester...
...such student was Timothy H. Schmidt ’08, who called Mankiw “a really sharp guy” and “energetic...
...Mankiw, who sparked controversy last fall after suggesting that outsourcing jobs can benefit the economy, resigned from his post in Washington last month, just before reaching the two-year limit of his faculty sabbatical...