The Incredible Textbook Royalties Earned By Harvard Economics Prof

Greg Mankiw Harvard-based economics textbook writer. It is not difficult to understand why he is dancing.

It pays and pays and pays to be a Harvard-based Keynesian mainstream economics textbook writer.

Dylan Matthews reports:

Because Harvard has a tendency to set the pattern for other universities, Ec 10’s textbook is a massive best-seller, used at dozens of other schools, earning its author, professor Greg Mankiw, an estimated $42 million in royalties since it was first released in 1998.

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