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.
Tyler Cowen is an American economist, author, and public intellectual who has turned relentless curiosity into a public utility. He is the Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and chairman of the Mercatus Center, the co-author of the long-running economics blog Marginal Revolution, the host of the Conversations with Tyler podcast, and the founder of Emergent Ventures, a grant program that has funded more than 1,000 ambitious people worldwide. Across books like The Great Stagnation, Stubborn Attachments, and Talent, he argues that sustained economic growth is a moral imperative and that the rarest resource of all is context.