[lbo-talk] Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. Joins University of Chicago as Senior Fellow

[Dissenting Wren]

Interesting that it's the Harris School (public policy) rather than the economics department.  Harris has been adding big names as "senior fellows" who don't do much of anything, afaict, except lend their names to the masthead.  Richie Daley is the other big one this year.  (Richie's big money job, though, will be working as a rainmaker for the law firm that cashed in on the deal that privatized Chicago's parking meters).  And Paulson isn't really getting his own department - Fox News is just confused (surprise!).  It sounds more like he's bringing his own institute (and money) with him.  The Paulson Institute, according to the official announcement, is going to be an independent institute (i.e., Paulson controls it, not the university) "housed at" the University of Chicago.  Sounds to me like the backstory is that, to get an appointment that puts some powder on his nose, Paulson had to buy his way in.

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Subject: [lbo-talk] Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. Joins University of Chicago as Senior Fellow

This has the air of inevitability to it, doesn't it?

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/henry-paulson-university-chicago-former-treasury-secretary-harris-school-20110628

Here is his teaching load:

"...Paulson won’t be teaching classes, the university said. Instead,
he will be leading 'research collaborations, speaker series,
conferences, workshops and other events and programs.'"

But he does get his own department:

"Paulson also announced he will create the Paulson Institute, an
independent department at University of Chicago that will focus on
relations between the United States and China."

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