Harvey Sheldon Rosen (born 29 March 1949) is an American

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and

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. Prior to his retirement and subsequent appointment as Emeritus Professor in 2019, Rosen was the John L. Weinberg Professor of

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and Business Policy at

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, and former

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of the Council of Economic Advisers. His research focuses on

public finance Public finance is the study of the role of the government in the economy. It is the branch of economics that assesses the government revenue and government expenditure of the public authorities and the adjustment of one or the other to achiev ...

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economist and former Council of Economic Advisers chairman

Greg Mankiw Nicholas Gregory Mankiw (; born February 3, 1958) is an American macroeconomist who is currently the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw is best known in academia for his work on New Keynesian economics. Mankiw ...

credits Rosen as one of four mentors who taught him how to practice economics, along with

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, and Stanley Fischer.

Early life and education

Rosen attended the

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, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and received a

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in economics in 1970. Rosen also attended

, where he received his

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

and

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in economics in 1972 and 1974, respectively.

Career

Rosen has been an Associate Researcher at the

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since 1978, where he has focused on taxes and commerce. In 1981 he was a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institute, and in 1986 was a Fellow at the

Econometric Society The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools to their field. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians or statisticians. ...

. From 1989-1991 he worked at the United States Department of Treasury as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis. He served as a member of the

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from 2003-2005, and served as Chairman in 2005. Rosen is currently the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy at

, where he has previously served as Chairman of the Department from 1993 to 1996, and was a Co-Director at the Princeton University Center for Economic Policy Studies from 1993 to 2011. His work at Princeton focuses on teaching

undergraduate Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-le ...

courses in

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ation, and introductory microeconomics, and graduate courses in public finance. In 2013, Rosen was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of

same-sex marriage Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same sex or gender. marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 33 countries, with the most recent being Mexico, constituting ...

during the '' Hollingsworth v. Perry'' case.

References

External links

C.V.

Biography

Mankiw's "Rules of Thumb"
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