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Andrew Samwick

Affiliation: Dartmouth College

Andrew Samwick is a professor of economics and Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

He is most widely known for his work on the economics of retirement, and his scholarly work has covered a range of topics, including pensions, saving, taxation, portfolio choice, and executive compensation.

In July 2003, Samwick joined the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, serving for a year as its chief economist and helping to direct the work of about 20 economists in support of the three Presidential appointees on the Council.

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Andrew Samwick's Latest Articles | 85

What Should Colleges Do?

May 6, 2012| 

I had several reactions to this column in the New York Times on the purpose of a college education. My perspective is that of someone who works in higher education... Read »

More Housing Bailouts

Feb 2, 2012| 

If you have a mortgage for more than the value of your home, then you cannot refinance the whole amount with a new lender, because (nowadays, anyway) lenders are... Read »

Apple and the Middle Class Squeeze

Jan 23, 2012| 1

This New York Times article investigating why so much manufacturing is happening in China and so little in the United States is really wonderful.  I had two reactions. First,... Read »

If You Want To Advance the Centrist Democratic Agenda …

Jan 4, 2012| 

… then you might hope that Romney wins the election in November.  Here’s my thinking on this crazy notion. We know what Washington looks like if Obama... Read »

What We Need from the Financial Sector

Jan 2, 2012| 

This post by Brad DeLong, America’s Financial Leviathan, provides a valuable taxonomy of the roles that a financial sector is supposed to play in a market-driven... Read »

Building on the Work of Occupy Wall Street

Nov 28, 2011| 

The best thing I’ve read lately about how to channel public frustration into constructive action is this column by Scott Turow, holding forth at Bloomberg... Read »

Meet the New Speech

Sep 9, 2011| 

Aaron Blake and Chris Cillizza write in The Fix that President Obama almost granted me one of my wishes last evening. “There was a word missing from President... Read »

Obama’s Re-election Chances

Aug 24, 2011| 

Dartmouth welcomed the Gallup Poll’s editor-in-chief, Frank Newport, to campus yesterday for the closing lecture in our “Leading Voices in Politics and... Read »

Right Analogy, Wrong Timing

Jul 8, 2011| 

Should the government budget the way families do? Here’s an excerpt from Paul Krugman’s latest column: One striking example of this rightward shift... Read »

Debt Ceiling Talks: A Great Hollywood Script

Jul 7, 2011| 

When Treasury Secretary Geithner spoke to a local audience last month, he assured us that the ensuing weeks would be filled with dramatic political theater. When... Read »

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