Name: Larry Summers: Our Problem is About Accountability, Not Myopia
Uploaded: 2011-10-19T00:15:52-04:00
Duration: 1 min 10 s
Description: Larry Summers argues “I think we have substantially more problems with inadequate accountability in the United States than we have with excessive myopia in the United States.”

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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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Larry Summers argues “I think we have substantially more problems with inadequate accountability in the United States than we have with excessive myopia in the United States.”

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