[lbo-talk] Larry Summers on the academic hiearchy

[Scissors MacGillicutty]

One would think that graduate training in a quantitative social
science would rid a person of the habit of making such flimsy
generalizations, even in casual conversation.  But I guess I'm just
naive.

smg

On 2/17/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [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.'"
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