Greg Mankiw's Blog

Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Boston University economist Larry Kotlikoff and some BU students and faculty.  You can listen ...

I am not attending the ASSA meeting in person this year, but I will participate via zoom in a session on Efficient and Effective Course Prep...

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Click on image to enlarge. This chart is from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget . The figures are totals between 2021 and 2031.

My recent paper for Brookings is now published. You can access the final version  by clicking here .

Last week, Eric Budish of the University of Chicago gave a great lecture on cryptocurrencies at Harvard. You can watch it by clicking here .

 I don't agree with the sentiment, but I appreciate the humor.

I thought I might explain my fear that the Fed is in the process of tightening too much. Let me begin, however, with two points of agreemen...

The publisher of my textbook  Principles of Economics will host a webinar on October 21 during which I will talk about the new edition, whi...

From his famous AEA presidential address, still relevant more than a half century later:

I appreciate every new adoption of one of my textbooks, but this one, facilitated by my publisher Cengage at the request of my friend Patric...

When I was young, Paul Krugman was one of my favorite economists, and I would try to read everything he wrote (which was a lot!). At some po...

" Europe's lower inequality levels cannot be explained by more equalizing tax and transfer systems. After accounting for indirect t...

I will be speaking at he 18 th Annual Economics Teaching Conference sponsored by the National Economics Teaching Association (NETA) and Cen...

This paper  from the Bank of England is interesting. A tidbit: Inflation rates across firms have become more dispersed and skewed since the ...

According to CBO : In calendar year 2022, enacting the bill would have a negligible effect on inflation, in CBO’s assessment. In calendar ye...

I just read Thomas Piketty's latest book, A Brief History of Equalit y . It is the best window into Piketty's thinking to date in pa...

I just finished reading The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis by Nate Hilger. Some years ago, Nat...