What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is the view that the invisible hand is more powerful than the hidden hand. Things will happen in well-organized efforts without direction, controls, plans. That's the consensus among economists. That's the Hayek legacy.
Lawrence SummersInvestment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.
Lawrence SummersContagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.
Lawrence Summers