Thursday, June 30, 2011

N.Gregory Mankiev's advice to Young Economists...

Nicholas Gregory "Greg" Mankiw(born February 3, 1958) is an American macroeconomist of Ukranian descent. He is perhaps one of the greatest living Economists.He did his graduation at Princeton and spend an year each at MIT and Harvard Law School for his Ph.D.Currently, he is a professor of economics at Harvard University, where he teaches introductory economics (ec 10) among other courses. From 2003 to 2005, Mankiw was the chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisors. His publications are ranked among the most influential publications.His books have been recommended as text books in many universities and is a very influential person in the Economic students community. I felt that I should start this blog remembering his advices to Economic students.The following are his main advices to aspiring Economists, who are at the just started tasting the subject(aimed especially for under graduates). I am sure that this would benefit many more students like me to give direction to their careers.