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...been headed up all this time - and the four-week rolling average, over 400,000 at last count, is definitely knock-knock-knocking on recession's door. In this era of market madness, consumers may well have wearily learned to separate their portfolios from their household budgets. But no economist is yet suggesting that they'll continue to spend without a paycheck...
...social values are in the right place and they temper his views as an economist," says John Podesta, who served as chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, and who worked with Summers when he was at the Treasury...
...Economist's Priorities...
...example, when Summers was chief economist at the World Bank, he signed off on a controversial memo--authored by a staffer--that discussed the economic utility of dumping toxic waste in poor countries. Although Summers apologized for the memo and has said it was written ironically, it has continued to dog him. Such pure economic calculations may provide cost-effective solutions, but they are distasteful to those whose primary concern is not utility but health. Bloom says that such pure economics should not dominate decisions that could affect public health...
...Studies committees—both women—announced their departure this year, claiming they did not feel support for their academic endeavors here. The University lacks professors for American colonial literature, the history of mathematics, German political thought, and French language and civilization. With the ensemble of an economist as University president, a computer scientist as dean of the College and a chemist as dean of the Faculty, the cynic may find grounds for long-term worries. Either way, this is a pressing problem facing the administration and all the necessary steps, from supporting departmental tenure decisions to making...