Well, I'm certainly not going to argue that Summers is not an asshole, or that he is not completely amoral.
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 15, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > >> My recollection is that at some point during the Clinton >> Administration, Rep. Defazio, who was the Congressional champion of a >> financial transactions tax, challenged Summers, who prior to becoming >> a Clinton Administration official had written an academic paper which >> argued in favor of a financial transactions tax, to say whether he had >> changed his view. Larry's answer was, "I read the data differently >> now." > > Ha. I quoted that paper on transactions taxes in an unsigned editorial for > The Nation back in the early 1990s. When the factchecker called Larry's > office to check out the quotes, he exploded, saying he didn't want his > academic work being put to frankly political use. > > Doug > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
