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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

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 »

And If This Doesn’t Work, Let’s Try Payday Loans

Jul 8, 2010| 

Chris Edley comes up with a smart way to assist the states in managing their fiscal challenges — advance them the money, but don’t give it away. From... Read »

Defending BP

Jun 14, 2010| 3

Against one charge (and one charge alone). From today’s Washington Post: The company’s position is that it will pay for claims directly associated with... Read »

Where Are the Health Care Entrepreneurs?

Jun 1, 2010| 1

From the abstract of a new working paper by Harvard Professor David Cutler, “Where Are the Health Care Entrepreneurs? The Failure of Organizational Innovation... Read »

Immigration, Lost in Translation

May 22, 2010| 

If you read all the way to the fifteenth paragraph of this news article covering President Obama’s appearance with Mexico’s President Calderon on Wednesday,... Read »

The Profligate Versus the Prudent, Again

May 18, 2010| 

If there were ever an opening to a news article on the financial crisis to get my blood boiling, this is it: ATLANTA — As law enforcement agencies and regulators... Read »

What Does It Mean to Secure a Border?

May 7, 2010| 1

In more than five years of blogging, I have noticed that posts on immigration generate some of the most heated exchanges in the comment section. Last week’s... Read »

The Arizona Immigration Law — It Was Only a Matter of Time

Apr 28, 2010| 

I think most of the negative reaction to the recently signed immigration law in Arizona has it exactly backwards. If you told me that by carrying personal identification... Read »

The Green Tax Swap is Not Enough

Apr 26, 2010| 

From time to time, I have mentioned a “Green Tax Swap” as an appropriate policy to raise the price of carbon emissions while protecting lower-income... Read »

An Ounce of Prevention, SEC Edition

Apr 6, 2010| 

Zachary Goldfarb reports in today’s Washington Post about the SEC’s efforts to reform its enforcement image. There are plenty of examples given that... Read »

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