Greg Mankiw vs. Tjalling Koopmans
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Greg Mankiw
1958 – present
Nicholas Gregory Mankiw is an American macroeconomist who is currently the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw is best known in academia for his work on New Keynesian economics.
"Microeconomics and macroeconomics are closely intertwined. Because changes in the overall economy arise from the decisions of millions of individuals, it is imp…"
Tjalling Koopmans
1910 – 1985
Tjalling Charles Koopmans was a Dutch-American mathematician and economist. He was the joint winner with Leonid Kantorovich of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the theory of the optimum allocation of resources. Koopmans showed that on the basis of certain efficiency criteria, it is possible to make important deductions concerning optimum price systems.
"The principal customers aimed for are other economists or members of other professions, who are somewhat closer to the making of policy recommendations... The q…"
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