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Lawrence Summers

Twitter: @LHSummers
Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist, former Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank (1991–93), senior U.S. Treasury Department official throughout President Clinton's administration (ultimately Treasury Secretary, 1999–2001), and former director of the National Economic Council for President Obama (2009–2010). He is a former president of Harvard University (2001–2006), where he is currently (as of March 2017) a professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. -from Wikipedia

Positions

“Universities must stand for the authority of ideas, not the idea of authority. If they ban “speakers whose ideas are offensive,” the authority of ideas will fall to the censor’s veto, and universities’ ability to serve as the engines of progress in human comprehension will be gravely compromised.”
16 April 2018
https://debates.economist.com/debate/campus-free-speech?state=opening
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