College students nationwide assigned public finance textbook by Jonathan Gruber

[caption id=”attachment_111147″ align=”aligncenter” width=”4928″]MIT economist Jonathan Gruber (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

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The architect of the Affordable Care Act is also the architect behind the way in which many college students learn about the proper role of the government in the economy.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Jonathan Gruber – who had a central role in developing the healthcare law – is also the mastermind behind a seminal textbook assigned to many college students in economics classes.

Gruber’s “Public Finance and Public Policy” is mandatory reading this fall for students at institutions such as Princeton, George Mason, UNC Chapel Hill, Colorado State, Portland State, Northwestern, Washington University in St. Louis and many others enrolled in public finance, online records show.

Read more at The College Fix.

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