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Orszag has been an unabashed behavioral geek ever since he read that 401(k) study. His deputy, Jeff Liebman of Harvard, is a noted behavioral economist, as are White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago, Assistant Treasury Secretary nominee Alan Krueger of Princeton and several other key aides. Sunstein has been nominated to be Obama's regulatory czar. Even National Economic Council director Larry Summers has done work on behavioral finance. And Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan is organizing an outside network of behavioral experts to provide the Administration with policy ideas...
...wasn’t a blindly channelled science geek from the get-go,” said Janine P. Scott ’77, Hamburg’s roommate during her freshman and senior years...
...data available to the public and to release the code that runs the content database so that the Web site can serve as a research platform for scholars studying the subject matter, said Hal M. Roberts, the technical architect of the Web site and self-identified “geek in residence” at the Berkman Center...
...don’t we give up this whole blogging thing and just start a website cataloguing the crackpot websites started by Harvard students. (Remember Gossip Geek? Or Yard Report? We don't either.) Apparently there’s money in anything you can buy a domain name...
...District—overlapped at Harvard Law School by one year. Obama graduated in 1991 and Davis in 1993. At Harvard, Davis was studious and serious, with an addiction to politics, according to freshman roommate Joshua M. Levisohn ’90. “He was a government geek of the highest order,” Levisohn said. “He loved everything about government and covered politics incessantly.” During the 1986 midterm election Davis knew about every congressional race and every candidate, Levisohn said. “Some people are obsessed by baseball...