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...LS: I think its better for the book to be discussed when it’s published than in advance. I wouldn’t be writing a book if I didn’t think I had some interesting things...
...LS: My office is in the [Harvard] Kennedy School and a pretty large fraction of my interactions are with the professional schools and with members of the economics department, and many of the younger scientists, and those are groups with whom I always felt very comfortable and supported....So I haven’t had much interaction with the segments of the Faculty who were most hostile when I was president. But when there have been meetings, I think there’s a sense on both sides that what’s past is past...
...LS: I’m staying a million miles away from Faculty politics. I believe very much that freedom of speech and argument is a central value in an academic community, but it is a serious, serious mistake to confuse freedom of speech with freedom from criticism, and part of free speech is the ability to balance ideas or cast doubt on ideas with which one disagrees...
...LS: As I think inevitably would be the case with anybody who is former president of the University...I’ve responded from time to time to requests for advice from President Faust and the deans of various schools. But in general, I haven’t wanted to be involved in University policy so things have actually worked out quite comfortably...
...LS: I’ve been working primarily on sets of issues surrounding globalization and the income distribution and patterns of inequality, particularly questions about whether the trends towards increased inequality are accelerating. I’ve also been working in a more applied sense on the causes of the financial crisis...I’m excited about the work that [economics] professor [N. Gregory] Mankiw and I are doing together editing the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity....By soliciting the papers and working with manuscripts, I feel like we have an opportunity to draw younger scholars into doing empirical...