Re: [Pen-l] Summers finds (trade union) religion

[Gar Lipow <gar.lipow@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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