Name: Lawrence Summers Reframes the Economic Debate
Uploaded: 2008-10-24T08:23:38-04:00
Duration: 5 min 37 s
Description: Obama’s top economic adviser on the virtue of free markets.

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Lawrence H. Summers

Lawrence H. Summers is an American economist. He is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University, where he became one of the university's youngest tenured[…]

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