29 Facts About Greg Mankiw

Nicholas Gregory Mankiw is an American macroeconomist who is currently the Robert M Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Greg Mankiw was the 11th most cited economist and the 9th most productive research economist as measured by the h-index.

Greg Mankiw is a conservative, and has been an economic adviser to several Republican politicians.

From 2003 to 2005, Mankiw was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W Bush.

Greg Mankiw grew up in Cranford, New Jersey, where he worked in Republican politics, and graduated from the Pingry School in 1976.

Greg Mankiw completed a 72-page long senior thesis titled "Understanding Employment Fluctuation".

At Princeton, Greg Mankiw was classmates with the economist David Romer, who would later become one of his coauthors, and was roommates with the playwright Richard Greenberg.

Greg Mankiw worked as a staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1983, which he went on to chair two decades later.

Greg Mankiw returned to Harvard Law School for a year, but having completed his PhD and realizing that he was better at economics, he left to teach at MIT for a year, and then became an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University in 1985.

Greg Mankiw was promoted to professor in 1987, at the age of 29.

Greg Mankiw is considered a New Keynesian economist, though at least one financial journalist states that he resists such easy categorisation.

Greg Mankiw did important work on menu costs, which are a source of price stickiness.

Greg Mankiw has written several papers on the empirical analysis of consumer behavior, often emphasizing the role of heterogeneity.

Greg Mankiw's most widely cited paper is "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth", which was coauthored with David Romer and David Weil and published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 1992.

Beyond his work in macroeconomics, Greg Mankiw has written several other notable papers.

Greg Mankiw has written two popular college-level textbooks: the intermediate-level Macroeconomics and the more famous introductory text Principles of Economics.

Mr Greg Mankiw has produced something long overdue: an accessible introduction to modern economics.

Mr Greg Mankiw seems to revel in setting out how different schools of thought have contributed to economists' current state of knowledge.

Since then, more than one million copies have been sold, and Greg Mankiw has received an estimated $42 million in royalties from the book, which is priced at $280 per copy.

Greg Mankiw has become an influential figure in the blogosphere and online journalism since launching his eponymous blog.

In November 2006, Greg Mankiw became an official economic adviser to Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's political action committee, Commonwealth PAC.

Greg Mankiw continued in that role during Romey's 2012 presidential bid.

From 2012 to 2015, Greg Mankiw served as chairman of the Harvard economics department.

In February 2013, Greg Mankiw publicly supported same-sex marriage in the United States in an amicus brief submitted to the US Supreme Court.

Counterprotesters showed up in that class, and Greg Mankiw replied to his students in an article in The New York Times.

On October 28,2019, Greg Mankiw left the Republican Party and registered as an independent.

Greg Mankiw cited his disappointment in the party's overlooking of President Trump's misdeeds and a wish to vote in either primary in his home state, Massachusetts.

In 2017, Greg Mankiw was one of eight "Republican elder statesmen" to propose for conservatives embrace of a policy of carbon taxes, with all revenue rebated as lump-sum dividends.

Greg Mankiw is referenced in the 2011 film Elles, which shows an episode in the life of Anne, a journalist writing an article about female student prostitution.