Who is Larry Summers?
Larry Summers is an American economist who also served as President of Harvard University’s School of Government. He was the Secretary of the Treasury during the second Clinton Administration, and has been tapped by Barack Obama to be the head of the National Economic Council. Although widely respected as an economist, Larry Summers has come under fire for various comments he has made during his career. Coming from a distinguished family of economists, both of Summers’ parents taught economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and both his father and mother had brothers who won Nobel prizes in economics. From an early age Larry Summers excelled in academics, and showed an unsurprising interest in economics. At sixteen he enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), originally pursuing physics before switching to economics and graduating with his BS in 1975. He went on to earn a PhD from Harvard University in 1982, and in 1983 he became a tenured professor at Harvard at
(Business Week, May 24, 1999) * http://slate.msn.com/id/111151/ How the Great Brain Learned to Grin and Bear it Slate (magazine)|Slate, June 29, 2001. * http://www.counterpunch.org/summers.html “Larry Summers’ War Against the Earth” (Counterpunch (newsletter)|Counterpunch) ===Differences between males and females controversy=== * http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2005/nbe r.html Transcript of Summers’ remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce * http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2005/wom ensci.html Letter from President Summers on women and science * http://www.studentsforlarry.org Harvard Students for Larry (students who are supporting Summers during his confrontation with the Harvard faculty) * http://www.isteve.com/2005_Education_of_Larry_Summ ers.htm The Education of Larry Summers, Steve Sailer, The American Conservative, Feb. 2005. (Critical of feminism) * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A424 61-2005Feb21.html “Harv
