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...When I asked [Summers] to look up from the numbers to see what we were talking about, he did the hardest thing of all for an economist," Bono said. "He saw through the numbers [and encouraged] the government of Washington to cough up the dough...
...economist who advised two presidents and was later a population studies expert at Harvard, David E. Bell died Sept. 6 after a brief illness...
Rubin, the third economist in three years to speak at Harvard’s Commencement ceremonies, has been called the “steward of America’s economy” by former White House Chief of Staff John D. Podesta. Rubin follows Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and the Nobel prize-winning scholar of the developing world’s economics, professor emeritus Amartya...
Though the economist trend among Commencement speakers is new, the international themes of their speeches...
...When selecting a speaker, Hunt says that the committee should have kept the interests of the outgoing Harvard president in mind. Although incoming University President Lawrence H. Summers is, like Rubin, an economist, Hunt describes Rudenstine as a "very eloquent humanist," and says "someone closer to his [Rudenstine's] interests in liberal arts" would have been a better choice...