Sure those are great textbooks. If you want the history of economic thought though you might be more interested in the people and times which led to the ideas

Sure those are great textbooks. If you want the history of economic thought though you might be more interested in the people and times which led to the ideas in the book. You won’t get enough of that in mankiw. As to why the mankiw book is used at Harvard… maybe we should have a talk about monopolies… ;) That’s just a joke it’s a good textbook but its status as the standard at Harvard is only partially related to its quality.