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While each is unsavory in his own way, Summers and Kissinger are both gentlemen and scholars in the Harvard tradition, combining an academic background with Washington back-door experience at the highest levels. So it is with Marty Feldstein and the Bush tax plans, and with countless other professors and affiliates. This revolving-door connection brings prestige to Washington, while at Harvard it carries a certain measure of authenticity and power. Both establishments feed off the other’s legitimizing influence and redeem each other’s foibles by providing a home for its denizens...
...proposal suggested that the department offer students an alternative to the first semester of the popular Core, Social Analysis 10: “Introduction to Economics,” colloquially known as “Ec 10” and taught by Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein...
...proposal was first discussed in a preliminary meeting with committee members before spring break, which both Marglin and Feldstein attended. Responses were positive, according to Marglin...
...while many students support the proposal and said that Feldstein is too biased in his presentation of the course, University President Lawrence H. Summers has said he feels that Feldstein actually takes a more objective stance in his work than Marglin...
Historically, Ec 10 has not always been so one-sided. Before 1984, when Feldstein took over the course, there was a unit on Radical Economics, as well as alternative sections in which students could do additional readings which critiqued the dominant models they learned in class. However, Feldstein removed Radical Economics from the syllabus and eliminated the alternative sections. Perhaps in an ideal world, there would only be one introductory economics course including the mainstream models and its critiques, a course in which both conservatives and liberals would be challenged by opposing viewpoints. However, since Feldstein is unwilling to change...