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Comment author: William_Quixote 25 June 2013 12:48:05PM 7 points [-]

In addition to providing Harvard with the services of a professional economist, Mankiw also provides TV shows with a media personality, and political campaigns with consulting. He is good at all 3 jobs, but they do sometimes entail different things. Consequently "Mankiw said X" and "Mankiw said X in an article intended for publication in an academic journal" provide very different levels of evidence.