He will write a monthly column. He is also listed as a contributor over at New Republic’s Open University blog.
Larry Summers at the FT
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Having defended Summers at length in the brouhaha over his statements about sex and math ability, I’m still waiting to hear his defense of his own conduct in glossing over the corrupt behavior of his best friend, Andrei Shleifer, in Russia, both while Summers was Shleifer’s boss in the Treasury Department and at Harvard.
David Warsh has reported on this many times, for example:
http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/06.06.11.html
But the economics profession would appear to prefer to sweep this under the rug.
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