Editing Andrew Samwick

{{short description|American economist}}
'''Andrew Alan Samwick''' is an American [[economist]], who served as Chief Economist on the staff of the [[President of the United States of America|United States President]]'s [[Council of Economic Advisors]] from July 2003 to July 2004.<ref name="RockyBio" />  Samwick is currently Professor of Economics at [[Dartmouth College]] (since 1994) and the director of the [[Nelson A. Rockefeller Center|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]].<ref name="AP">{{cite news|url=http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/News/StateNewEngland/440358-227/dartmouth-economics-professor-wins-state-award.html|title=Dartmouth economics professor wins state award |date=November 18, 2009|publisher=Nashua Telegraph, via the Associated Press|accessdate=15 December 2009}}</ref> He is also a current editor of [[Economics Letters]].

==Education==
Samwick received a [[Bachelor of Arts]], ''[[summa cum laude]]'', in economics and was a member of [[Phi Beta Kappa]] at [[Harvard College]] in 1989.<ref name="RockyBio">{{cite web|url=http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu/about/director.html |title=About the Director |publisher=Trustees of Dartmouth College |accessdate=15 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811011455/http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu/about/director.html |archivedate=11 August 2007 }}</ref>  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 [[Social Security Administration|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]], [[macroeconomics]], [[Social Security (United States)|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.<ref name="dartlife">{{cite web|url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dartlife/archives/19-5/nhprofessor.html|title=Dartmouth Life - Economist Andrew Samwick: New Hampshire Professor of the Year |last=Gatlin|first=Latarsha|publisher=Trustees of Dartmouth College|accessdate=15 December 2009}}</ref>

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 [it]... Not a single one."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://voxbaby.blogspot.com/2007/01/new-years-plea.html|title=A New Year's Plea}}</ref>

In 2024, Samwick signed a faculty letter expressing support for the actions of Dartmouth College president [[Sian Beilock]], who ordered the arrests of 90 students and faculty members nonviolently protesting the [[Gaza war]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Letter to the Editor: We Dartmouth Faculty Members Support the Recent Actions by College President Sian Leah Beilock|url=https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2024/05/we-dartmouth-faculty-members-support-the-recent-actions-by-college-president-sian-leah-beilock|access-date=2024-06-10|website=The Dartmouth|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Patel |first=Vimal |date=2024-05-03 |title=Police Treatment of a Dartmouth Professor Stirs Anger and Debate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/us/dartmouth-professor-police-protests.html |access-date=2024-05-05 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Adkins: Dozens of people arrested at pro-Palestine protest at Dartmouth College |url=https://www.wmur.com/article/dartmouth-college-pro-palestine-camp-new-hampshire/60657838 |website= WMUR 9 News |access-date=May 2, 2024 |date=May 1, 2024}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070811011455/http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu/about/director.html About the Director] — Rockefeller Center
*[https://www.nber.org/authors/andrew_samwick Publications by Andrew Samwick] — National Bureau of Economic Research
*[http://samwick.blogspot.com/ Andrew Samwick's Blog] — Andrew Samwick's Blog about Economics, Politics, and Current Events
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*{{cite web|title=Andrew Samwick|url=https://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/psa395.htm|publisher=[[EconPapers]]}}
*{{cite web|title=Andrew Samwick|url=https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=au%3A%22Andrew+Samwick%22+&acc=off&wc=on&fc=off&group=none|publisher=[[JSTOR]]}}

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