Tyler Cowen interviews Larry Summers on Macroeconomics, Mentorship, Complacency
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* Working with the Reagan administration to promote supply side economics.
* Advising post soviet states on a transition to a market economy which led to finanicial crisis, a 60% collapse in GDP, a spike in suicide rates and the privatization of state assets at firesale prices and the creation of an oligarch class.
* Working to de-regulate CDSes and derivatives.
* Calling Africa under-polluted.
* Attributing women's underrepresentation in math and science to natural genetic inferiority.
(I hope it's clear that this is not a defense of Summers but a defense of good conversation.)
This criticism makes no sense. If these were "boilerplate talking points" they would be somewhat well known and you would probably be at least vaguely aware of their veracity.
>I hope it's clear that this is not a defense of Summers
Explicit condemnation of the sharing of a series of contextual facts about a public figure under discussion in the name of the vaguest of vague ideals - "good conversation"?
It actually does seem like a defense of Larry Summers.