[lbo-talk] Larry Summers on the academic hiearchy

[Doug Henwood]

[Someone just posted this quote from Harvard president and 
uber-smart-boy economist Larry Summers to the feminist econ list. 
It's from a Feb 16 article in the Boston Globe.]

"'President Summers asked me, didn't I agree that, in general, 
economists are smarter than political scientists, and political 
scientists are smarter than sociologists?' [former Dean] Ellison 
said. 'To which I laughed nervously and didn't reply.'"