Via Scott Sumner, there is an interesting discussion from blogger Alex Jutca about having lunch with Greg Mankiw.
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Good grief, even Greg Mankiw, a former CEA Chair would agree in principle.
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It helps that Glenn Hubbard and Greg Mankiw, mainstream economists who served under George Bush junior, are advising him.
Greg Mankiw has (not quite entirely jokingly) started the Pigou Club for those who would sign on to the idea for example.
Two mainstream academics and former advisers to Mr Bush, Greg Mankiw and Glenn Hubbard, have the most prominent roles on the economic team.
But another reason might be the assessment of former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush, Greg Mankiw.
Serious economists, from Nicholas Stern and Greg Mankiw all the way back to Arthur Pigou agree that this is the way to do it.
Greg Mankiw, a Harvard economist who chaired the CEA in 2003-05, points out that the council packed considerable intellectual firepower under Martin Feldstein in 1982.
Possible candidates include his close advisers Glenn Hubbard and Greg Mankiw, and John Taylor, a Stanford University economist who has fiercely criticised both monetary and fiscal stimulus.
An increased gas tax is such a no-brainer in economic terms that even Republicans like Greg Mankiw (currently an adviser to Mitt Romney) urge it as public policy.
Some may be crackpots, but the list includes Nobel laureates (Gary Becker, Robert Lucas, Thomas Sargent) as well as other highly esteemed researchers (Robert Barro, John Cochrane, Eugene Fama, Greg Mankiw).
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You might think the views of Greg Mankiw, Robert Barro, Scott Sumner, or George Selgin are wrong, but at least they understand standard macroeconomic concepts and have a coherent story about why they favor alternative models.
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Buffett also invites some mild criticism from Harvard economist and former Mitt Romney economic advisor Greg Mankiw, who writes on his Wall Street Journal blog that Buffett has failed to come clean about his own tax avoidance strategies.
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Whether we should run deficits is a much more complicated question. (The following borrows heavily from a terrific paper by Doug Elmendorf and Greg Mankiw.) We should borrow to finance investments that will pay off over time.
Glenn Hubbard and Greg Mankiw.
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