[lbo-talk] more on Summers: the Shleifer angle

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Thu Feb 23 10:24:40 PST 2006


On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Doug Henwood wrote:


> [The Shleifer angle has gotten almost no coverage, but it's really smelly -
> an example of personal corruption at the highest levels of academic economics
> combined with the fucking over of post-Soviet Russia.]

Daniel Davies recently had a post on the newest developments in this case with an interesting cite to an article in the Institutional Investor that is available to non-subscribers for sitting through an ad. Love the URL too:

http://crookedtimber.org/2006/01/23/beware-of-economics-geeks-bearing-gifts/

Michael



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