Word: rubiner
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...renowned economists Joseph Stieglitz, William Easterly and Amartya Sen, Summers also assigned some of his own published work. Readings that discussed Summers’ tenure as secretary of the Treasury and chief economist of the World Bank were also on the syllabus, like a recent memoir by Robert E. Rubin ’60, Summers’ former colleague...
...love Larry but he is not a model of humility,” Rubin said citing his surprise that Summers had been so humbled...
...response to a question about the balance of power in Washington, Rubin commented that liberals cannot compete with the neo-conservative think tanks and the disciplined infrastructure of Washington conservatives...
Championing Clinton’s scholarly instincts, she and Rubin agreed that a president must intellectually engage with issues in a way they said Bush...
...anecdote resonating with the Harvard Square audience, Rubin recalled a meeting between Clinton, himself and University President Lawrence H. Summers. Then-deputy secretary of the treasury under Rubin, Summers had been put in his place by Clinton’s knowledge of a recent book on economics...