Greg Mankiw's Blog

I rarely read books for a second time, mainly because I am a slow reader and there are so many good books I haven't yet read. But recent...

The response to the rollout of Kamala Harris's economic plan, especially the price gouging regulation, has not been good.  When you lose...

I plan to vote for Kamala Harris. Why? Simply because she is not Donald Trump. In my judgment, Trump is (1) an authoritarian narcissist whos...

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 From the New York Times : One peer reviewer suggested that Darwin drop all the evolution stuff and expand the chapter on raising pigeons. (...

I was recently a panelist at an NBER conference, organized by  Larry Ball and Yuriy Gorodnichenko, on inflation. You can read my remarks here .

A question that many pundits have been asking is: Why does the general public seem to feel bad about the current economy, when many traditio...

I just finished reading the biography of Milton Friedman by Jennifer Burns, which came out last year. It is great. The reader is taken throu...

I just saw a great movie at the Nantucket Film Festival called Ghostlight . It is now opening at theaters nationwide. Strongly recommended. ...

  The 12th edition of my intermediate macroeconomics textbook is now available. For more information, click here .

 

I was sorry to see President Biden threaten steel tariffs on antidumping grounds. For my views on this topic, see this old piece I wrote w...

  Click on image to enlarge. This figure shows that the PPI for final demand tracks the CPI less shelter very closely. By both measures, inf...