For President-Elect

N. Gregory Mankiw is Professor of Economics at Harvard University . As a student, he studied economics at Princeton University and MIT. As a teacher, he has taught macroeconomics, microeconomics, statistics, and principles of economics. He even spent one summer long ago as a sailing instructor on Long Beach Island .

Professor Mankiw is a prolific writer and a regular participant in academic and policy debates. His research includes work on price adjustment, consumer behavior, financial markets, monetary and fiscal policy, and economic growth. His published articles have appeared in academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics, and in more widely accessible forums, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Fortune.

He has written two popular textbooks—the intermediate-level textbook Macroeconomics (Worth Publishers) and the introductory textbook Principles of Economics (South-Western/Thomson). Principles of Economics has sold over a million copies and has been translated into twenty languages.

In addition to his teaching, research, and writing, Professor Mankiw has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Congressional Budget Office, and a member of the ETS test development committee for the advanced placement exam in economics. From 2003 to 2005 he served as Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

Professor Mankiw lives in Wellesley , Massachusetts , with his wife, three children, and their border terrier Tobin.

For Vice President

Paul Krugman has at least three jobs: he is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and, perhaps, his best-known job, as an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. In recognition of his influence The Washington Monthly called him “the most important political columnist in America.”

In addition, Krugman’s reputation extends well beyond the U.S.The Asia Times recently called him “the Mick Jagger of political/economic punditry.” The Economist said he is “the most celebrated economist of his generation.” And, recently Mr Krugman received what is often called the European Pulitzer Prize, the Asturias Award given by the King of Spain.

Krugman is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 professional journal articles, many of them on international trade and finance. In recognition of his work, he received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association, an award given every two years to the top economist under the age of 40.

For the past 20 years, Krugman has written extensively for non-economists, including a monthly column, “The Dismal Science,” for the on-line magazine Slate. He has also been a columnist for Fortune and has published articles in The New Republic, ForeignPolicy, Newsweek and The New York Times Magazine, before joining The New York Times.

Prior to his appointment at Princeton, Krugman served on the faculty of MIT ; his last post was Ford International Professor of Economics. He also taught at Yale and Stanford Universities, and prior to that he was the senior international economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, under Ronald Reagan. (Yes, he served under a conservative President.)

He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Group of Thirty. He has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, as well as to a number of countries including Portugal and the Philippines.

His most recent book, published in Fall 2007 is THE CONSCIENCE OF A LIBERAL. His previous book, THE GREAT UNRAVELING, was highly praised and became a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. Mr. Krugman and his wife, Robin Wells, have recently collaborated on two college textbooks -- Microeconomics published in October 2004, and Macroeconomics published in the September 2005.

Krugman and his wife live in the Princeton area with their two cats.

For Positions on the Board Of Directors
(vote for two of the four candidates):

Susan Christoffersen is an assistant professor of Economics and Finance in the School of Business Administration at Philadelphia University. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from New York University in 1990.

In pedagogy, she emphasizes the integration of writing and computer skills and is currently assessing the effectiveness of active learning exercises. This work is published in the Journal of Financial Education (forthcoming), Journal of Educational Leadership (forthcoming), and the proceedings of the Association of Business Simulation and Experiential Learning.

In the field of forensics, she has researched the use of pension benefits earned by a spouse to assess lost earning capacity as well as recent work in mortality estimates. She is published in the Journal of Legal Economics (with C. Frampton), and in the Journal of Forensic Economics (forthcoming).

Her theoretical work on the impact of R&D subsidies in the context of an international innovation race focuses on the welfare implications. In this area she has published a book review in the Eastern Economic Journal, as well as articles in the Journal of Applied Business Research, and the Journal of Global Competitiveness. The textile industry provides an area in which this theoretical work is applied.

Dr. Christoffersen returns to Long Island University as a Visiting Scholar each summer and has served as a referee for International Journal of Industrial Organization, Academy of International Business, and Journal of Legal Economics.

Ann Davis received a B.A. from Barnard College, a Master’s in Economics from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston College. She is currently an assistant professor of economics at Marist College. She teaches principles, intermediate theory, international, and environmental economics. She has also taught at Vassar College and at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Her research interests are in institutional economics, with respect to different approaches to property and property rights. She has published in international, gender, women’s history, and institutional history, as illustrated with selected recent publications below:

"(De)Constructing Dependency: Institutional, Historical Perspectives of Welfare", Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 36, No. 1, Winter, 2004, pp. 37-51.

“Property and Politics in the Hudson Valley: Continuity and Change in the Corporate Form,” in Oppenheimer and Mercuro (eds.), Law & Economics: Alternative Economic Approaches to Legal and Regulatory Issues, M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming, December, 2004.

“Globalized Financial Markets,” in Shojai and Cristopherson (eds.), The Virtuous Vice: Globalization, Greenwood Press, May, 2004.

“The Other Side of the Class Relation: Women, Money, and Commodities in Capitalism,” in Freeman, Kliman, Wells (eds.), The New Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics, Edward Elgar, 2004.

Ardalan, Kavous and Ann Davis, “Community Reinvestment Act and Efficient Markets Debate: Overview.” Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2006, 53-70.

“The Discourse of Property: Continuity Within Transformation,” in McDonough, Terrence, Michael Reich, David M. Kotz, and Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez (eds.), CISC Working Paper No. 24, December, 2006. Growth and Crisis: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory and Analysis, 403-425. available online at http://www.cisc.ie/documents/00024ciscwp.pdf

“ Endogenous Institutions and the Politics of Property: Comparing and Contrasting Douglass North and Karl Polanyi in the Case of Finance.” Forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Issues.

Darrick Hamilton is an Assistant Professor at Milano – The New School for Management and Urban Policy, an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Economics at The New School for Social Research, and, beginning in January of 2008, will be the co-Associate Director of the American Economic Association Summer Research and Minority Scholarship Program. He earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1999. At the University of North Carolina, he received the department's Most Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, and upon graduation received the National Economic Association's 2001 Rhonda M. Williams Dissertation Award. While in graduate school, he also received a Social Science Research Council International Predissertation Fellowship to perform field work and study “Ethnic and Racial Disparity in Trinidad and Tobago”. Professor Hamilton was a Ford Foundation Fellow on Poverty, the Underclass and Public Policy at the Poverty Research and Training Center, and the Program for Research on Black Americans both at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 1999-2001. Hamilton was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at Yale University from 2001-2003. His research agenda involves examining the welfare of less "privileged" groups and ethnic/racial group competition for preferred economic and health outcomes. He has published numerous articles on ethnic and racial disparities in; wealth, homeownership, and labor market outcomes. His articles can be found or are forthcoming in the following publications; African American Research Perspectives, American Economics Review, Applied Economics Letters, Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Housing Studies, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Human Resources, Review of Black Political Economy, Social Science Quarterly, Southern Economics Journal, and Transforming Anthropology. In addition, his research appears in edited volumes published by The University of Michigan Press, National Urban League, and Oxford University Press. His research agenda has been supported by grants from the Ford Foundation, National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.