Larry Summers comes by it naturally—or is it nurturally?
I hadn’t previously been aware of these facts about controversial Harvard ex-President and current National Economic Council head Larry Summers:
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 30, 1954, Summers is the son of two economists, Robert Summers and Anita Summers, who are both professors at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the nephew of two Nobel laureates in economics: Paul Samuelson (sibling of Robert Summers, who, following an older brother’s example, changed the family name from Samuelson to Summers) and Kenneth Arrow (Anita Summers’s brother).
That’s quite a genetic legacy. Not only does he have economic Nobel Laureates who are close relatives on both sides of the family, but these are two of the most influential economists ever. In addition, both are still alive—Arrow at eighty-seven and Samuelson at ninety-three—as his parents also seem to be (from a brief Wiki perusal).
No wonder Summers has a special interest in nature/nurture issues within the rarified heights of the superstars of science.
It’s “nurturally” all the way down. The idea that an economist can be a genetic trait is anathema.
“Economist” can’t possibly be genetic, but “high ability for abstract reasoning” could…
they forgot, and his career was destroyed by feminists when he mused at other unsanctioned areas for inquiry… (like the different shapes of the distribution curves… where men have more criminally insane and negatives, but also more soaring heights of positives).
of course the feminists didnt care to wonder that perhaps his mom being an economist mr summers wouldnt have hte same view of an evil oppressor.
netted them 50 million though, and is just one more brick in the wall as to harvards hard left ways and how what it produces is nothing like the crop of business men before such left shenanigans.