Having (perhaps) whetted folks’ appetites with my quick reading of Harvard Econ professor Greg Mankiw’s “The Economy is Rigged, and Other Presidential Campaign Myths,” we’ll turn to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (Good or Bad for the U.S.) next week.
You’re obviously free to do your own research. But here’s another piece by Mankiw on the subject:
Economists Actually Agree on This: The Wisdom of Free Trade
Think I’m only selecting one side? Here’s a bit of a rebuttal, courtesy of Google:
Greg Mankiw is Everything That’s Wrong with Economists
Who is this Greg Mankiw?
As you know, I always like to do a bit of research on my sources, and Wikipedia is a good start. As I mentioned on Monday, he’s well known for his activity on the Bush Council of Economic Advisors and his authorship of an introductory Economics textbook that is in very wide use today—so his is a very familiar name to recent college grads who’ve taken Econ.
I like to follow him mostly because he’s articulate, funny, thoughtful and accomplished. But I also admit that I tend to agree with him a lot (whether that’s because he’s convincing or because we just see the world in similar ways is a subject for future debate).
