FT — Hello and welcome to The Economic Show. I’m Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator in London. While our regular host, Soumaya Keynes, is on maternity leave you’ll be hearing a lot more from me over the coming weeks. Today, I have the pleasure of talking to someone who has uniquely been a hugely distinguished academic, a top official, and a highly influential voice on global economic affairs. He’s also somebody I’ve known since the mid-1990s when he joined the US Treasury.
I’m talking, of course, about the former United States Treasury secretary and president of Harvard University, Larry Summers. His signal characteristics are his originality and moral and intellectual courage. This combination is why he has sometimes upset people. It is also why he’s so influential. Larry, welcome to the show. READ FULL TRANSCRIPT