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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 | 84

Boeing, Punishment, and Retaliation

Jun 18, 2011| 

Yesterday, I had what has become par for the course on USAir — a 3-hour flight delay for idiotic reasons on the outbound flight and more delays on the return... Read »

It May Be a Broken Record, But the Sound Is Still the Best

May 5, 2011| 

Earlier this week, reacting to the weak GDP growth rate of 1.8% in the first quarter, David Leonhardt wrote: But our working assumption should be that this recovery... Read »

Moderates? Republicans?

Apr 26, 2011| 

The way Ezra Klein tells it is largely the way I remember it, too. Antecedents of President Obama’s policies — an individual mandate in health insurance,... Read »

Slate’s Do-Nothing Balanced-Budget Plan

Apr 13, 2011| 

Annie Lowery’s provocative piece about budget policy is making the rounds this morning. There is a lot to enjoy and a lot of familiar ground to disagree with,... Read »

Base Health Care Subsidies on Lifetime Income, not Current Income

Apr 12, 2011| 

I was on a bit of a blogging hiatus over the past few weeks — anything interesting happen while I was gone? Part of the hiatus was to finish up work related... Read »

On Wisconsin — The End of the Beginning

Mar 10, 2011| 

I think that Matthew Yglesias has the right reaction to the surprise move by the Wisconsin Senate to circumvent the need for a quorum and pass the anti-public-union... Read »

My Generation Delays, Your Generation Pays

Feb 10, 2011| 

From my inbox, this morning, from Fidelity Investments: In 2011, Social Security withholdings taxes are being reduced by 2%. Since this money was intended for retirement... Read »

The Word of the Day: Severability

Feb 1, 2011| 

Judge Roger Vinson, a district court judge in Florida, has ruled the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional and gone further to say that... Read »

So if We Win the Future, Who Loses?

Jan 27, 2011| 

The trouble with the State of the Union address is that it is a good 20-minute speech that drags on for about an hour.  Whatever is useful about it is drowned... Read »

My New Year’s Resolution – Stop Underfunding My Retirement Plan

Jan 3, 2011| 

Happy New Year to everyone.  I am happy to be back from my holiday blogging hiatus.  And this week, I go back in the classroom to teach a course on local public... Read »

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