TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Harvard students walked out of Greg Mankiw’s introductory economics course in “solidarity” with occupy protests:

Gabriel H. Bayard ’15, another organizer of the walk out, said that he believes the course is emblematic of the economic policies that have led the financial crisis.

“Ec 10 is a symbol of the larger economic ideology that created the 2008 collapse. Professor Mankiw worked in the Bush administration, and he clearly has a conservative ideology,” Bayard said. “His conservative views are the kind that created the collapse of 2008. This easy money focus on enriching the wealthiest Americans—he really operates with that ideology.”

My favorite part of that statement is how Bayard specified what policies Mankiw supported which led to the financial crisis.