N. Gregory Mankiw
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Nicholas Gregory Mankiw (born February 3, 1958) is a macroeconomist. In 2003, he became the chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisors. Mankiw tends to lean towards conservative positions on economic issues, perhaps explaining his selection as chairman by that president. According to J. Bradford DeLong, University of California at Berkely economics professor and Clinton aide, "Greg is broadly in ideological sympathy with the president", who is well-known by most as a conservative Republican.
Mankiw was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He received his high school diploma from The Pingry School in 1976. Graduating from Princeton University summa cum laude in 1980 with an A.B. in Economics, he was able to work as an staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers a mere two years later, foreshadowing his later position as chairman of that organization. Soon after leaving the Council in July,1983, he earned his PhD in Economics from the MIT in 1984. That same year, he became an instructor at that institution. That position only lasted one year, but a month after leaving in June,1985 he became an assistant professor of Economics at Harvard. This lasted until he was promoted to full professor in 1987. Finally, his career reached an apex when he was granted the position of Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to the President of the United States in May 2003. He was given leave by Harvard, and still remains a professor there.
In combination with the active career detailed earlier, he has written two popular college-level economics textbooks, the first entitled Principles of Economics and the second Macroeconomics. Together, these books have sold an astounding one million copies in seventeen diverse languages.
References
- Mankiw's page at Harvard University (http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mankiw/mankiw.html)
- Offical White House Biography(almost identical to Harvard biography) (http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/mankiwbio.html)
- "Into the Politics of Economics" New York Times Article (http://phoenix.liu.edu/~uroy/Mankiw/Mankiw-CEA3.htm)