Lawrence Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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Website: http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~lsummer/
Publications: http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~lsummer/publications.htm
November 5, 2012
"The 'Obama debt' fallacy"
Op-Ed, Reuters
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Lawrence Summers writes about Mike Boskins' response to Summers' Reuters column last week arguing that in a number of areas of economic policy, President Obama has the superior vision.
November 5, 2012
"The 'Obama debt' fallacy"
Op-Ed, Reuters
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Lawrence Summers writes about Mike Boskins' response to Summers' Reuters column last week arguing that in a number of areas of economic policy, President Obama has the superior vision.
November 5, 2012
"The 'Obama debt' fallacy"
Op-Ed, Reuters
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Lawrence Summers writes about Mike Boskins' response to Summers' Reuters column last week arguing that in a number of areas of economic policy, President Obama has the superior vision.
March 18, 2013
"Europe’s Work is Far From Over"
Op-Ed, Washington Post
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
"Europe’s economic situation is viewed with far less concern than was the case six, 12 or 18 months ago. Policymakers in Europe far prefer engaging the United States on a possible trade and investment agreement to more discussion on financial stability and growth. However, misplaced confidence can be dangerous if it reduces pressure for necessary policy adjustments," warns Lawrence Summers in an op-ed for the Washington Post.
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January 21, 2013
"End the Damaging Obsession With Deficit"
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
In the two and a half months between the election and this week’s inauguration of President Barack Obama, America’s public policy debate has been focused on prospective budget deficits and what can be done to reduce them. Lawrence Summers writes that while we should address budget deficits, we should "not obsess over it in counterproductive ways – nor lose sight of the jobs and growth deficits that will ultimately have the greatest impact on the way this generation of Americans lives and what they bequeath to the next."
October 15, 2012
"The world is stuck in a vicious cycle"
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
If the global economy was in trouble before the annual World Bank and IMF meetings in Tokyo last week, it is hard to believe that it is now smooth sailing. Indeed, apart from the modest stimulus provided to the Japanese economy by all the official visitors and the wealthy financial sector hangers on, it is difficult to see what of immediate value was accomplished.
January 23, 2012
"The key to recovery: Boosting business confidence"
Op-Ed, Washington Post
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
"In today’s economic environment, optimism is associated with a rise in both interest rates and stock prices as the expectation is for more profits and demand for funds," writes Lawrence Summers.
(AP Photo/Christian Lutz)
September 19, 2011
"The World Must Insist That Europe Act"
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
In his celebrated essay “The Quagmire Myth and the Stalemate Machine”, published in 1972, Daniel Ellsberg drew out the lesson regarding the Vietnam war that came out of the 8,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers, which he had secretly copied a few years earlier. It was simply this: policymakers acted without illusion. At every juncture they made the minimum commitments necessary to avoid imminent disaster – offering optimistic rhetoric, but never taking the steps that even they believed could offer the prospect of decisive victory.
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June 23, 2010
"Our Agenda for the G-20"
Op-Ed, Wall Street Journal
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and Timothy Geithner
The G-20 summit in Toronto, Canada provides an important opportunity to focus on the policies required to reinforce growth," write Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithner. " Engagement with the G-20 has been a key component of the administration's strategy to defuse the global financial crisis and ensure economic recovery."
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August 7, 2008
"How to Build a U.S. Recovery"
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Lawrence Summers comments on the ways in which current financial policy is developed and offers ways in which policy making should be altered. Instead of creating financial policies in a reactive and erratic manner, he states, policy makers need to be more proactive in the actions they take to protect our economy.
