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Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist. He served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Harvard University says Lawrence Summers is returning to teaching and academic research at the Ivy League school after serving as President Barack Obama's top economic adviser for two years.
Summers will be based at Harvard Kennedy School, where he taught before taking a public service leave of absence in early 2009.Summers also will lead the Sharmin and Bijan (BEE'-zhan) Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, which is Harvard's hub for academic scholarship, research and teaching on key policy issues facing the public and private sectors.Summers announced his resignation in September as assistant to the president for economic policy and director of the White House National Economic Council. He coordinated the advice Obama received from throughout the administration as he pushed to deal with an unprecedented economic crisis....President Obama's top economic adviser said Friday that the caving of the U.S. economy stopped just short of a death rattle and is on its way back to health. "We wer...
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