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Lawrence Summers
Harvard University Professor, Former Presidential Economic Advisor
Larry Summers on the Rise of China and India Read More
Important aspects of how we live today will shock the consciences of those who look back on us, says Summers, just as we are shocked by the consciences of those in the past. What will change the way we see the world? Individuals, protests, new philosophies, and better thinking. Read More
Larry Summers, Eric Schmidt, Skip Gates, Dean Kamen, Rahm Emanuel, Craig Venter and many other thought-leaders and innovators convened on Nantucket from September 30 to October 2, 2011. Those are some very big names on a small island, and if it all sounds rather exclusive, well, it was. In this video, Larry Summers participates in a panel was stacked with financial heavyweights including Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, Hedge Fund Manager Eddie Lampert, venture capitalist Stephen DeBerry and Mellody Hobson, President of Ariel Investments. The panel was moderated by Tom Stewart, Chief Knowledge Officer at Booz and Company. Read More
Larry Summers argues "I think we have substantially more problems with inadequate accountability in the United States than we have with excessive myopia in the United States." Read More
A former Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers sees the value in smart regulations. Read More
Obama's top economic adviser on the virtue of free markets. Read More
Lawrence Summers talks about the disadvantages of using the financial markets to explain the overall economy. Read More
President Obama's top economic adviser predicts the long-term success of America. Read More
Lawrence Summers provides a capsule of the last hundred years of American economic output. Read More
President Obama's top economic advisor Larry Summers on the global impact of a spendthrift culture. Read More
Power depends on legitimacy, and legitimacy depends on a perception of competence, says Larry Summers. Read More
Iraq and economic security for middle class families, says Larry Summers. Read More
"I wrote on a graduate school application that while some children were taught to believe in God, I came to believe in the power of systems analysis." Read More
Larry Summers things we will be measured by how we treated new guests at the table. Read More
Americans are defined by their openness, non-conformity and their reason, says Larry Summers. Read More
Larry Summers believes that technology enabled by sense has shaped history more than any other single force. Read More
Larry Summers on why academics rely more on theory than on data analysis. Read More
Larry Summers believes the measure of a good life is leaving a positive difference. Read More
Larry Summers on truth, debate, academia and George W. Bush. Read More
About Lawrence Summers
Lawrence H. Summers is the Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. He was appointed by President Barack H. Obama on November 24, 2008.
Until January, he was the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. He served as the 27th president of Harvard University from July 2001 until June 2006. From 1999 to 2001, he served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury following his earlier service as Deputy and Under Secretary of the Treasury and as Chief Economist of the World Bank. Summers has taught economics at Harvard and MIT. His research contributions were recognized when he received the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40, and when he was the first social scientist to receive the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award for outstanding scientific achievement. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and has written extensively on economic analysis and policy publishing over 150 articles in professional economic journals.
Lawrence Summers received his B.S. from MIT and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He and his wife Elisa New, a professor of English at Harvard, have six children.