--- title: "2 Andrew Samwick Quotes - Famous Economist (Abandoning the nest egg?)" description: "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 f..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b053/author-andrew-samwick-105652.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Andrew Samwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b053/author-andrew-samwick-105652.jpg) # Andrew Samwick Economist **2** quotes in **23** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Andrew Samwick is an economist, best known for *Abandoning the nest egg?*. ## Quick Facts About Andrew Samwick Profession Economist Notable works Abandoning the nest egg? ## About Andrew Samwick 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 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. He is also a current editor of Economics Letters. ## Quotes by Andrew Samwick > [You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-samwick/you-are-smart-people-you-know-that-the-tax-cuts-have-not-fueled/) [Andrew Samwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-samwick/) [Activity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/activity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f27/andrew-samwick-105652_activity_you-are-smart-people-you-know-that-the-t_1865963.jpg) > [You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues … You know that the first order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-samwick/you-are-smart-people-you-know-that-the-tax-cuts-have-not-fueled-2/) [Andrew Samwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-samwick/) [Agree](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/agree/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd8/andrew-samwick-105652_agree_you-are-smart-people-you-know-that-the-t_2682752.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-samwick/#itemlist", "name": "Andrew Samwick Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish causality. You know that the first order effect of cutting taxes is to lower tax revenues. 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