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Harvard economist Gregory Mankiw, renowned for his textbook “Principles of Economics” (1997), recently posted on his blog: “Value-added tax (VAT) is not a trade barrier.” His comment came ...

Samuelson once famously said "I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws, if I can write its economics textbooks." By any measure, he did a great job. The first edition of Economics was published in 1948 ...

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He read the entire textbook in a few days, took his first economics class, and the rest is history. Card will be the first to admit that his branch of economics, labor economics, is often seen as ...