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Ec 10 is still the largest course at Harvard.

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In my experience, there is nothing sweeter than a baby with little animal ears on his hat.  I crocheted this baby bear hat for a little man who will be making his entrance into the world shortly.  Congratulations, Holly!  I can't wait to meet Hunter.This was a no-pattern hat ... I like to crochet on the fly.  :)

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Yes, says CBO: Differences in total compensation—the sum of wages and benefits—between federal and private-sector employees varied according to workers' education level.Federal civilian employees with no more than a high school education averaged 36 percent higher total compensation than similar private-sector employees. Federal workers whose education culminated in a bachelor's degree averaged

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Robert Samuelson has the numbers:Obama’s still-vague Buffett Tax would apparently impose a minimum 30 percent tax rate on incomes exceeding $1 million....In September, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the 10-year deficit at $8.5 trillion. The nonpartisan Tax Foundation estimates that a Buffett Tax might now raise $40 billion annually. Citizens for Tax Justice, a liberal group, estimates

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I don't know who this blogger is, but his or her first post is called "Mankiw is right. Buffett is wrong."  And he or she puts the argument well (although I may not be objective here).

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The Harvard Pre-Collegiate Economics Challenge is a competition for high school students studying AP economics.   It is run by Harvard undergraduates and features one of my favorite economists as a guest speaker.  This year it will be held on Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 9 am to 5 pm.If you are interested in more information about this event, click here.

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1. Last night President Obama continued his misleading claims about Warren Buffett's tax rate.  David Leonhardt recalls that I rebutted those claims several years ago.  David usefully asks for a response to my rebuttal from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning research group in Washington. Chuck Marr, the center’s director of federal tax

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Here is the memo that Larry Summers sent to President Obama when the 2009 stimulus package was being debated. It was originally confidential, but somehow it has recently been made public and is now going viral.I make a brief cameo appearance on page 11: "Greg Mankiw is the only economist we have consulted with who refused to name a number and was generally skeptical about stimulus." I explained

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Don't you love learning something new?  Last week I learned how to ruffle fabric using my Brother serger, and it sure beats pulling threads (thanks, Pinterest!).   Check out the tutorial at {lbg studio} if you want to learn, too.I made this little top for one of my favorite baby friends using the Sweet Little Dress pattern by Leila & Ben.  I shortened the dress to a tunic,

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Click here to read my column in Sunday's NY Times.

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I need some help from the growth empiricists out there.  If you aren't one of them, stop reading.  Continuing will be a waste of your time.For researchers studying economic growth, one of the standard resources for cross-country data has been the Penn World Table.  My 1992 paper with David Romer and David Weil (my most cited paper by a large margin) used this resource,&

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An article in the National Journal.

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In international economics.

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Several readers have asked me my opinion of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act.  I fear that in this case, the devil is in the details, so I find it hard to reach a strong view.  But I have been disturbed by the relatively knee-jerk reaction of the anti-SOPA crowd.  This is a hard issue, and when someone makes it sound easy, I feel like they haven't thought it through

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There has been a lot of discussion recently about tax progressivity.  A few observations on the topic:1. The U.S. personal income tax is generally progressive, and substantially so.  Click here to see the numbers.  The average tax rate for tax returns with over $1 million in income is 25 percent.  The average tax rate for returns with income between $50,000 and

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Peter Wirzbicki reports:I just got back from Chicago, where, along with attending the American Historical Association, I participated in a series of protests held by Occupy Chicago, along with CACHE (Coalition Against Corporatization of Higher Education) that targeted the American Economics Association (AEA). It's not everyday that the worlds of street protests and academic conferences blend so

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From a University of Minnesota graduate student:

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Michael Mussa has passed away. 

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A user of my intermediate macro text writes to me:I always teach the strategic bequest motive in intermediate macro, mostly because it gets the students to think more deeply about why people save. While I have never really thought that strategic bequests are an important determinant of savings behavior, this story in today's NY Times moved my priors somewhat.If you don't recall what the

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As seen by economist Kevin Hassett.

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A letter from econ prof Art Carden to students everywhere.

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Ezra Klein polls CEA chairs.

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About a decade ago, I wrote a paper on monetary policy in the 1990s (published in this book). I estimated the following simple formula for setting the federal funds rate:Federal funds rate = 8.5 + 1.4 (Core inflation - Unemployment).Here "core inflation" is the CPI inflation rate over the previous 12 months excluding food and energy, and "unemployment" is the

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The results of a survey:Responses from 90 institutions indicate that the average expected salary offer for the 2011-12 academic year is $89,155.... The average expected offer by Ph.D. degree granting institutions [is] $99,269.... The Top 30 institutions in the sample report an average expected offer of $115,000.... Bachelor and Master degree granting institutions report an expected

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The price system, of course.  New evidence from Seattle:New tolls on the Highway 520 bridge have reduced traffic so much that drivers are commonly traveling at 65 mph, maybe three times as fast as they're used to.

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