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Lawrence Summers

Lawrence Henry Summers is an American economist and as of 2010, Director of the White House National Economic Council for President Barack Obama. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is the 1993 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal for his work in several fields of economics and was Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001, during the Clinton Administration.
Summers also served as the 27th President of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006. Summers resigned as Harvard's president in the wake of a no-confidence vote by Harvard faculty that resulted in large part from Summers' conflict with Cornel West, financial conflict of interest questions regarding his relationship with Andrei Shleifer, and a 2005 speech in which he suggested that the under-representation of women in science and engineering could be due to a "different availability of ... » Read more on Wikipedia.org

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 Lawrence Summers: Lessons in Reinhart-Rogoff error
2013-05-07
... raising taxes but only a way of deferring those painful acts. Lawrence Summers, a professor and past president at Harvard University, was Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration and economic adviser to President Obama from 2009 through 2010.
(The News Journal)
  1. Strip the varnish from Reinhart and Rogoff's mistake
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 COLUMN - The lessons of Reinhart-Rogoff: Lawrence Summers
2013-05-05
By Lawrence Summers. May 5 (Reuters) - The economics commentariat and no small part of the political debate in recent weeks has been consumed with the controversy surrounding the work of my Harvard colleagues (and friends) Carmen Reinhart and Ken ...
(Reuters)
  1. The lessons of Reinhart-Rogoff
  2. Lawrence Summers: The lessons of Reinhart-Rogoff
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 Google takes stake in Lending Club
2013-05-02
Then came Kleiner Perkins' Mary Meeker, followed by the preeminent economist Lawrence Summers. Now Lending Club has picked up another high-profile backer: on May 2, the company announced that Google has taken a minority stake in the company.
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    		 Yearly Prize of $500000 Is Created for Faculty
    2013-04-22
    The Minerva Project began to attract attention last year when it received $25 million in seed money from Benchmark Capital and announced that Lawrence H. Summers, a former president of Harvard and Treasury secretary, would be the chairman of the ...
    (New York Times)
    1. Minerva, online college, plans $500000 prize for innovative teaching
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    		 Lawrence Summers: When gridlock is good
    2013-04-15
    Lawrence Summers, a professor and past president at Harvard University, was Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration and economic adviser to President Obama from 2009 through 2010. With the release of the president's budget, Washington again ...
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      		 Is American democracy dysfunctional?: Lawrence Summers
      2013-04-14
      (Lawrence Summers is a Reuters columnist. Any views and opinions expressed are his own.) By Lawrence H. Summers. (Reuters) - With the release of the president's budget, Washington has once again descended into partisan squabbling. There is in ...
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        		 COLUMN-Is American democracy dysfunctional?: Lawrence Summers
        2013-04-14
        By Lawrence H. Summers. April 14 (Reuters) - With the release of the president's budget, Washington has once again descended into partisan squabbling. There is in America today pervasive concern about the basic functioning of our democracy. Congress ...
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          		 Raj Chetty Wins the John Bates Clark Medal
          2013-04-12
          Past recipients also include the former Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers, Milton Friedman, and Robert Solow. Mr. Chetty specializes in public economics, and has published widely cited and influential work — much of it featured in this newspaper ...
          (New York Times (blog))
          1. Harvard's Chetty Wins John Bates Clark Young Economist Award
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          		 Ashes magic will be lost if England and Australia play each other too often ...
          2013-04-10
          Ashes magic will be lost if England and Australia play each other too often, says Wisden editor Lawrence Booth ... "By the end of the 2015 Ashes, the Australians will have visited this country for bilateral series five summers out of seven," writes Booth.
          (Telegraph.co.uk)
          1. Wisden warns of 'Ashes overkill'
          2. Wisden names Clarke as No. 1
          3. Wisden fears over Ashes overkill
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