Andrew Alan Samwick is an American
economist, who served as Chief Economist on the staff of the
United States President's
Council of Economic Advisors from July 2003 to July 2004.
Samwick is currently Professor of Economics at
Dartmouth College (since 1994) and the director of the
Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences. He has also held teaching positions at
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. In 2009, Samwick was named the New Hampshire Professor of the Year by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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.
He is also a current editor of
Economics Letters.
Education
Samwick received an A.B.
summa cum laude
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and was a member of
Phi Beta Kappa in Economics at
Harvard College in 1989.
He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. At MIT, he was the recipient of several grants and fellowships including: the
National Institute on Aging, Pre-doctoral Training Grant (1992–1993), the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship (1992–1993) and the
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1989–1992).
Research and advising
Samwick has consulted for the
Canadian government, the
U.S. Social Security Administration, the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the
World Bank. Professor Samwick has also offered Congressional testimony on Social Security and retirement issues.
He is a research associate of the
National Bureau of Economic Research and the co-organizer of its Social Security Working Group. His research interests include:
finance
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,
macroeconomics
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For example, using interest rates, taxes, and ...
,
Social Security,
saving, and
taxation. His work has appeared in ''
The American Economic Review'', ''
The Journal of Political Economy'' and ''
The Journal of Finance'' among others. In 2000, Professor Samwick was awarded Dartmouth's Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement.
Writing on his blog in 2007, Samwick urged his former colleagues in the Bush administration to avoid asserting that the
Bush tax cuts paid for themselves, because "No thoughtful person believes
t...Not a single one."
References
External links
About the Director— Rockefeller Center
Publications by Andrew Samwick— National Bureau of Economic Research
Andrew Samwick's Blog— Andrew Samwick's Blog about Economics, Politics, and Current Events
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Harvard College alumni
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
Columbia Business School faculty
Dartmouth College faculty
21st-century American economists
Living people
Bradley Foundation Fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)