What Can an Economic Adviser Do When He Disagrees with the President
What Can an Economic Adviser Do When He Disagrees with the President
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当经济顾问与总统意见不同时可以做什么
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2003
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通讯作者：
Peter R. Orszag
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J. Frankel;F. Bator;M. Boskin;D. Cutler;Jason Furman;Gilbert Heebner;W. Gale;Jeffrey B. Liebman;Peter R. Orszag
假设他得到参议院的批准，哈佛著名经济学教授格雷格·曼昆将很快成为布什总统经济顾问理事会的新主席。总统做出如此杰出的选择值得祝贺。然而，曼昆可能需要一些建议--特别是从历史的角度来看，当白宫的官方政策与他作为职业经济学家的信念背道而驰时，顾问可以做些什么。当然，如果任何一位总统接受他的经济顾问在每一个问题上所采取的每一个立场，那将是一个惊人的巧合。但在这位总统和优秀的经济学之间可能会有特别大的分歧，比如曼昆自己非常受欢迎的教科书。所以我才担心。我想到的是预算赤字、钢铁关税、农业补贴以及与美联储的冲突等问题。
Assuming he is confirmed by the Senate, Greg Mankiw, a leading Harvard economics professor, will soon be the new Chairman of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers. The president should be congratulated for such an outstanding choice. Mankiw may need some advice, however -a historical perspective, in particular, on what an adviser can do when official White House policy goes contrary to his convictions as a professional economist. Of course, it would be a remarkable coincidence if any president accepted every position that his economic advisers had taken on every issue. But there are likely to be especially large divergences between this president and good economics as represented, for example, by Mankiw’s own very popular textbook. This is why I am concerned. I am thinking of such issues as budget deficits, steel tariffs, agricultural subsidies, and conflict with the Fed.