[lbo-talk] Andrei Shleifer

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Dec 14 09:34:20 PST 2006


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Dec 14, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Willy Greenfields wrote:
>
> > This is old news, and the article below is almost a
> > year old, but I cannot figure out how this guy is
> > still received in polite society, much less how he
> > holds onto a professorship at one of the world's most
> > prestigious universities. Is cleverness really so
> > scarce in the world?
> >
> > http://www.dailyii.com/print.asp?ArticleID=1039086
>
> Maybe he's got something on Summers or some other Harvard poobahs.

What he's probably 'got' on them is himself. Imagine the huge fuss that would be created were Harvard to attempt to remove his tenure and he contested it in an open hearing. Hell, there might be a century's worth of dirty linen floating down on the academic world. :-)

Carrol


>
> Doug
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