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...Glaeser who helped revive the charge last month, when he told The Crimson that a magazine exposé on fraud allegations against Summers’ friend and fellow economist Andrei Shleifer ’82 was “a potent piece of hate creation—not quite ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,’ but it’s in that camp...
Miron, who would later cast aside entrepreneurship for theory, has perhaps always been economically-minded. The son of a lawyer who thought like an economist, Miron says he and his father discussed economic policy at the dinner table...
...economist interested in cost-benefit analyses of government policies and their effects on society, Miron advocates drug legalization and other libertarian policies, saying that “however well intentioned, a large fraction of government interventions do more harm than good...
...makes the distinction by comparing their relative fields of expertise. “Derek is a humanist...you have to have a humanist at the core of the university...someone who thinks that truth is transcendental,” Nesson says. “The pure economist doesn’t have a handle on a transcendental type of truth.”Yet different as the two may seem, Summers’ stance on contentious issues is oddly reminiscent of the opinions of his replacement. According to Keller’s “Making Harvard Modern...
...this is not simply an issue of style. As the recent multi-million-dollar Russian reform fraud scandal involving his close friend and fellow economist Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82 illustrates, Summers also has an ethics problem. This is perhaps most starkly evident in the way that he worked to maintain a fortress of secrecy around him while employing Washington-style political tactics as a way to embarrass or humiliate colleagues. In Summers’ inner circle, economics is about power rather than principle. And this debilitating corporate worldview—where market values...