Name: Lawrence Summers’s history of American productivity
Uploaded: 2008-10-23T19:32:59-04:00
Duration: 3 min 35 s
Description: Lawrence Summers provides a capsule of the last hundred years of American economic output.

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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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