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My Rules of Thumb By N. Gregory Mankiw Published in The American Economist My assignment is to describe how I work. I take on this task markets for understanding the business cycle. This conviction with mixed feelings. One can easily become vain in the process eventually led to my involvement in a line of research now of public introspection, and vanity is a trait best left private. It is called New Keynesian Economics. not entirely clear to me why anyone should care about When I entered MITs graduate program in the fall of 1980, idiosyncrasies--except, perhaps, for my colleagues, students, Larry Summers was a young assistant professor. Larrys and family, who have no choice but to live with them. enthusiasm, breadth of knowledge, and quick mind attracted me, Yet when other economists write essays of this sort, I enjoy and we spoke together at MIT during the year and at NBER reading them. I like to think that these essays edify me in some during the following summer. When Martin Feldstein brought way, but at the very least they appeal to the voyeur in me. So, I Larry to work at the Council of Economic Advisers in figured, others may learn from a brief essay about how I work. September 1982, Larry brought me along with him. I was Or, at least, they may be amused by it. fortunate to be able to work closely with Larry during the brief I have organized this essay around six rules of thumb that I period when he was already a great economist but not yet a follow as I go about my working life. I have chosen these rules