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Greg Mankiw
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Greg Mankiw's personal blog at gregmankiw.blogspot.com covers economics and politics. Since 2007, 67 different Hacker News readers have linked it 126 times, most often “Things Economists Agree On”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 4 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Greg Mankiw's blog as a right-of-centre economics source, citing posts on taxes per person, economists' consensus, minimum wage and incentives, and one commenter lists it as a favourite.
- Recommended for · 4 comments
- Favourite; 'interesting' on taxes; 'clearly explains' work incentives; 'reasonably proves' a Krugman point.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2007-06-21
- Things Economists Agree On5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2009-02-17
- Taxes per Person4 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2010-03-31
- /2009/02/news-flash-economists-agree.html4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-02-26
- The Least Surprising Correlation of All Time3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-08-28
- A Quick Note on a Univeral Basic Income3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-07-12
- An Inflation Puzzle2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-08
- /2006/10/pigou-club-manifesto.html2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2007-08-20
- Test Scores and Biological Father's Income2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-08-31
- /2011/03/what-nation-has-most-progressive-tax.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-23
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, but where do those loophole savings go? They flow to shareholders in the form of earnings, which get taxed again, or to consumers in the form of lower costs. You really need to look at total tax revenue per GDP, and we're at the low end of that, but when you consider our high GDP per capita ( http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/03/taxes-per-person.html ), we're in the middle of the pack. We're actually not tha…
Comment linking /2010/03/taxes-per-person.html
on “Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat”Submitted Things Economists Agree On as a story · 119 points
HN discussionChecking my rss reader ... https://feld.com/ (VC, but wide ranging) https://mapbrief.com/ Snarky GIS content https://randsinrepose.com/ Management advice for a level I'll never get to :) http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/ Right of center economics https://ultrasaurus.com/ Tech https://www.eugenewei.com/ Big pic tech and society
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Why a Gas Tax Holiday Is a Bad Idea as a story · 34 points
HN discussionIf you have an obligation to vote, then it's an obligation to make an informed vote. If you haven't attempted to evaluate your decision carefully and can't make an informed vote, please don't vote. Informed voting > not voting > uninformed voting Greg Mankiw has a column on this: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/11/election-day-approach...
Comment linking /2006/11/election-day-approaches.html
on “Remind HN: Vote”Submitted Taxes per Person as a story · 25 points
HN discussionCap-and-trade is just carbon tax + corporate welfare (existing polluters get to sell their right to pollute) + trading vigs for Wall Street http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/08/fundamental-theorem-o...
Comment linking /2007/08/fundamental-theorem-of-carbon-taxation.html
on “I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it”Submitted Good Academic Bad Human Being as a story · 23 points
HN discussionThe reason why it is so hard to become a doctor is because the AMA restricts the number of applicants and schools that can create doctors so wages can remain artificially high. http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/25/american-medical-associatio... http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/06/physicians-incomes-an...
Comment linking /2009/06/physicians-incomes-and-healthcare-costs.html
on “Why you should not go to medical school”Submitted Greg Mankiw's Blog: Educating Oligarchs as a story · 19 points
HN discussionNot Japan, for instance: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2022/05/an-inflation-puzzle.h...
Comment linking /2022/05/an-inflation-puzzle.html
on “Day trader army loses all the money it made in meme-stock era”Submitted The Temporarily Disappearing Estate Tax as a story · 16 points
HN discussionDon't worry about schools, just worry about what 90% of economists agree on and it'll be a huge improvement. http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/02/news-flash-economists...
Comment linking /2009/02/news-flash-economists-agree.html
on “How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers?”Submitted On the State of Economics as a story · 12 points
HN discussion> conservatives using "extreme snow" during winter as an argument against climate change but that liberals using exceptional heat during summer The 'extreme snow' was limited to certain parts of the US - the west coast got very little on the whole. Whereas this high temperature data is a global average. So they're not really the same thing. > I think we should start focusing on real solutions. Sounds good to me. Tax…
Comment linking /2006/10/pigou-club-manifesto.html
on “July 2015 was warmest month ever recorded”Submitted An Inflation Puzzle as a story · 8 points
HN discussionLots of good examples here. Ariely's first 2 TED talks are great, but be careful with behavioral economics. For most start-ups, thinking about pricing in terms of hardcore microeconomic theory is probably a better route. The fact that so many digital goods truly have a marginal cost of 0 for the producer brings life back to the "Let's assume we have a constant marginal cost" phrase so many bright eyed Principles of…
Comment linking /2012/01/home-for-holidays.html
on “Pricing Experiments”Submitted Why an exploding monetary base may not lead to inflation as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttp://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post.html
Comment linking /2008/10/blog-post.html
on “Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?”Submitted The Case for More H1B Visas as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAssuming people are "rational actors" is a horrible idea when you're talking about individuals confronting a challenge once, but not a horrible one when you have communities of people who can all experiment and learn from each other's successes and failures. There's also the special case of, well, capitalists where the actors in a market are mostly those people who have demonstrated that they can act in what an econ…
Comment linking /2009/02/news-flash-economists-agree.html
on “Economics in One Lesson”Submitted A Dastardly Clever Scheme as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWhat is the relationship across those income ranges between income and parental IQ? https://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/08/least-surprising-cor... Saying that SAT scores correlate closely with income in response to someone claiming that SAT scores measure IQ could be a statement of agreement or disagreement, depending on the relationships among the various measures.
Comment linking /2009/08/least-surprising-correlation-of-all.html
on “I made a website to share rejection letters”Submitted Is my book that dangerous? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAgain, I see no data that supports rapsey's claims, namely that 1. Protectionism resulted in greater economic growth for the US, Germany, Japan, and China. The example of China is particularly egregious since it was China's economic liberalization reforms in the 1980s and 1990s, including opening up to foreign investment and lifting protectionist policies, that resulted in massive economic growth and massive poverty…
Comment linking /2006/05/outsourcing-redux.html
on “EU to move ahead with cultural quotas for streaming services”Submitted A Quick Note on a Univeral Basic Income as a story · 3 points
HN discussionObligatory post from 2009: https://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/02/news-flash-economist...
Comment linking /2009/02/news-flash-economists-agree.html
on “A Beginner’s Guide to MMT”Submitted The ethics of the organ trade: do two wrongs make a right? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere's one quote: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/02/news-flash-economists... 93% of economists agree that: "A ceiling on rents reduces the quantity and quality of housing available."
Comment linking /2009/02/news-flash-economists-agree.html
on “Taxi Medallions: New York's taxi system makes fares higher and drivers poorer”Submitted How Not to Stop Healthcare Inflation as a story · 3 points
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