Didn't Summers claim that he had meant it as a joke? He admitted authorship, I think.
>From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Summers' memo
>Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:37:10 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
> > I'd be happy to put as many goals past Lawrence "Africa is
> > underpolluted" Summers as I can.
>
>I vaguely remember hearing somewhere that this memo was satirical, a
>straight-faced reductio ad absurdam argument against the idea that market
>logic is always benign. Is there any truth to this interpretation? Or
>was that infamous memo really just as evil as it looked on its face?
>
>Michael
>
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