Greg Mankiw is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard and the author of the best-selling economics textbooks of his generation. A leading New Keynesian theorist, he chaired the President's Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush, taught Harvard's famous Ec10 introductory course, advised Mitt Romney's campaigns, and founded the Pigou Club to champion carbon taxes. His textbook 'Principles of Economics' has sold more than two million copies and been translated into about twenty languages.
Jason Furman is an American economist who chaired President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017 and now teaches the famous Economics 10 introductory course at Harvard alongside David Laibson. The Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, he is one of the most widely quoted policy economists working today, dissecting tariffs, inflation, deficits and AI in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Project Syndicate and on his prolific X feed.