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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

Larry Summers Joins the Build While It’s Cheap Chorus

Oct 9, 2010| 

On his way out the door, Larry Summers joins the Build While It’s Cheap Chorus. Writing in The Financial Times, Alan Rappeport reports: Larry Summers, the... Read »

The Time for Infrastructure Investment is ASAP

Oct 3, 2010| 

Writing in The Washington Post, Ezra Klein correctly notes that the case for infrastructure spending during an economic downturn is compelling and that the most... Read »

Taking the Tea Party Seriously

Sep 28, 2010| 

I think that it is well past time for my friends on the Left (and plenty to my Right) to take the Tea Party movmement more seriously. Stanley Fish makes the point... Read »

What Is Greece’s Maine Problem?

Sep 15, 2010| 

I have often wondered about the sequence of events that will unfold when our generation’s debt comes due. Who will pay it? The answer is the owners of any... Read »

The August Employment Report

Sep 3, 2010| 

The latest from the BLS on the employment situation is more of the same. There was essentially no net job growth — a decline of 54,000 consisting of a fall... Read »

Fiscal Stimulus, Executive Branch Style

Aug 5, 2010| 

This conjecture from Jim Pethokoukis would be shocking if it comes to pass: Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic bailout. Rumors are running wild from... Read »

Five Myths About the Bush Tax Cuts and the Scourge of Stimulus

Aug 2, 2010| 

In yesterday’s Washington Post, Brookings economist Bill Gale discusses these five myths about the tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003: Extending the tax cuts... Read »

Depressing. Unsurprising. Electric.

Aug 2, 2010| 

I “missed” this earlier this week. Edward Niedermeyer is anything but charged up about the Volt: So the future of General Motors (and the $50 billion... Read »

Is a Car Battery Factory Also a Better Way to Deal With Downturns?

Jul 16, 2010| 

President Obama went to Holland, Michigan, yesterday to focus attention on the impact that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will have on communities hard... Read »

Sense and Nonsense About Extending Unemployment Insurance

Jul 14, 2010| 

In a post last week, I remarked that, “In the world of fiscal policy, you could have left the planet for a year and not missed a beat.” The post repeated... Read »

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