Mankiw says:"I read this book first as a student at Princeton 30 years ago and again more recently when I assigned it for a freshman seminar at Harvard.

"Unlike any other college, Sarah Lawrence requires individual, biweekly student-faculty meetings, as part of every seminar (approximately 94% of our classes), " she says via e-mail.

Our first goal was an event to raise awareness of the moon and its importance to society. We couldn’t get a seminar room on such short notice, so we used the student union cafeteria.