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...guessing...that President Summers, who himself was promoted from within to tenure, is more receptive to this than previous presidents. And I think it’s a willingness on his part to take risks with younger people,” Todd added. “I think an economist would call him risk-loving...
There’s no question that among candidates for Harvard’s presidency, the runner-up as far as the arts were concerned was Summers himself. An economist who rarely expressed the cultural interests or artistic commitment of his two predecessors, Derek C. Bok and Neil L. Rudenstine, Summers recalls just three student artistic performances he’s attended this year, in contrast to his regular attendance at most home football games. Summers himself says his understanding of the humanities does not compare to his familiarity with social science. If he pursues a policy of benign neglect?...
Abram Bergson, an acclaimed economist who put aside plans to become a professional artist and went on to revolutionize the way the West understood Soviet economics, died last Wednesday in Cambridge...
...answer, in all likelihood, is no. There are two main reasons for this. First of all, the Founding Fathers explicitly sought to mitigate the risk of foreign engagements. Consequently, the structure of the U.S. government has a built-in check on imperial-minded leaders. As The Economist noted last June, “In a democracy as open and cacophonous as America’s, and with a constitution expressly designed to thwart decisive action by any single branch of government, it is hard to persuade a majority to support costly and risky international activism...
...He’s a great economist and has made a lot of important contributions to the profession,” said Jesse M. Shapiro ’01, an economics graduate student who has worked with Glaeser on his research for the past five years...