You may remember Jonathan Gruber. He’s the guy who called Americans stupid for falling for his and Obama’s lies about Obamacare.

Alex McHaddad reports at the College Fix.

College students nationwide assigned public finance textbook by Jonathan Gruber

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.

“The fact is, Jonathan Gruber’s text is widely considered as the standard text for that course,” Scott McConnell, an economics professor at Eastern Oregon University, said in an email to The College Fix.

McConnell used the textbook, which has undergone revisions and updates over the years, for a senior-level public finance course he taught at Eastern Oregon University last spring.

Gruber came under fire last year after controversial statements he made about Obamacare’s passage, referencing the “stupidity of the American voter” and Congress’ lack of transparency as things that helped push it through. Many U.S. lawmakers notoriously did not even read the lengthy bill before voting to enact it.

As for Gruber’s textbook, it’s described on Amazon as the first textbook to “truly reflect” the way public policy is created and implemented.

While much of the textbook is dedicated to topics such as carbon emissions trading, Coasian solutions, and compensating differentials, Gruber goes into great detail when discussing his specialty: healthcare. The 2007 edition dedicates an entire chapter to the topic of healthcare reform.