N. Gregory Mankiw
| Greg Mankiw | |
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| Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers | |
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In office May 29, 2003 – February 18, 2005 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Glenn Hubbard |
| Succeeded by | Harvey Rosen |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Nicholas Gregory Mankiw February 3, 1958 Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education |
Princeton University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, PhD) Harvard University |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition |
New Keynesian economics |
| Doctoral advisor |
Stanley Fischer |
| Doctoral students |
Xavier Sala-i-Martin Ricardo Reis |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Nicholas Gregory Mankiw (/ˈmæn.kjuː/; born February 3, 1958) is an American macroeconomist and the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw is best known in academia for his work on New Keynesian economics.
Mankiw has written widely on economics and economic policy. As of April 2016, the RePEc overall ranking based on academic publications, citations, and related metrics put him as the 23rd most influential economist in the world, out of nearly 50,000 registered authors. He was the 11th most cited economist and the 9th most productive research economist as measured by the h-index. In addition, Mankiw is the author of several best-selling textbooks, writes a popular blog, and since 2007 has written a column, approximately monthly, for the Sunday business section of The New York Times A 2011 survey of economics professors named Mankiw their second favorite living economist under the age of 60, just after Paul Krugman and just before Daron Acemoglu.
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. In 2006, he became an economic adviser to Mitt Romney, and he worked with Romney during the presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
Mankiw was born in Trenton, New Jersey. His grandparents were all Ukrainians. In his youth, he attended the Pingry School. In 1975, he studied astronomy at the Summer Science Program. He graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts in economics. At Princeton, Mankiw was classmates with economist David Romer, who would later become a coauthor of his, and roommates with playwright Richard Greenberg.
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