OK, Greg is, as I understand it, fairly svelte, and a distinguished Harvard professor to boot, but when you write a blog you go for the jugular. My sometime sparring partner/punching bag Brad DeLong, who really could stand to lose a few pounds, here knocks the stuffing out of Greg’s continuing whine that if those…
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N. Gregory Mankiw and the coercive power of the state
In the Sunday Washington Post, a variety of economic types are given the opportunity to sound off on President Obama’s tax proposals. Dr. Mankiw, who’s often appeared in these posts, is, unsurprisingly, unenthused, though he notes politely that the tax rates Obama is proposing aren’t really that bad. He concludes his thoughts with the following…
Paging Dr. Mankiw
Harvard Economaniac Greg Mankiw responds to those whipper-snappers at the Crimson who have some unkind things to say about Big Red’s econ department. According to the kids, “The economics department is perennially plagued with abysmal satisfaction ratings and high student-to-faculty ratios.” In the first place, Doctor Greg sez, “I have been told, however, that if…
Dr. Mankiw’s favorite chart
Or at least a chart from his favorite textbook (guess whose). Remarking on the above, Dr. Greg sez “The most noteworthy feature of these data is the substantial growth of government from 1929 to 1945. It is easy to understand why the size of government grew so much during this period: The nation was responding…
Vote for McCain, or Greg Mankiw Will Shoot His Dog
Can’t be that bad? Actually, it’s worse! If Obama is elected, Greg says, well, he just might not feel like writing as many articles as he used to. I don’t know about you, but living in a world that contains significantly fewer Greg Mankiw articles than the current one gives me the damn fantods. Here’s…
Parerga and Paralipomena, Updated
Paul Krugman fulfills his self-deprecation quota for the decade by linking to this Onionesque squib from Andy Borowitz: Krugman Could Turn into a Massive Douchebag, Colleagues Fear. Greg Mankiw may have already achieved massive douchebag status, but at least he’s keeping an eye what’s really important: his new book! Okay, Principles of Economics, by N….
Economics: Dismal Science or Jive-Ass Trade?
Writing about the current economic crisis is rather like writing on water, but as the poet Keats liked to say, “What the fuck?” Since I’ve been linking to Greg Mankiw’s site in the past, mostly with praise, I’d like to bitch a little about what I haven’t liked from Greg. Last week Greg labeled as…
Thoughts on the current discontents
By now it’s abundantly obvious that no one of any consequence—with the dubious exception of Newt “Kiss of Death” Gingrich—has been following my analysis of the current economic situation. Either that or I’ve been singularly unprescient. In any event, the things that I said were going to be happening don’t seem to be happening, and…