They both worked together when Summers was Treasury Secretary and worked well

Obama’s economic team is not exactly a Lincolnesque “team of rivals” but the Geithner/Summers relationship may well be critical. Combining Summer’s ego with his previous experience as Clinton’s Treasury Secretary and his policy-making role as head of the NEC will make him a formidable member of the team.
It will be quite a test for Geithner but even more for Obama to ensure he extracts maximum value from the talent he has put together.

an arrogant man takes no notice of what his minion’s thoughts are indeed tries to stop them. ( Hello John Stone).

Brad has said quite deliberately not only did Summers encourage other points of view, he would not even take the credit if they were right.

Summers the Head of Treasury and Summers the public figure are vastly different if one believes Brad. He did work with him

Have a listen to Brad Delong’s delivery style in his lectures – which can be downloaded on his site. I agree with lots of what he says. I’m an admirer of his intelligence and good policy sense. But for my taste his delivery is distainful, suggesting condescension (even arrogance) to the point of being unpleasant. So, the fact that he’s hunky with Summers isn’t particularly persuasive – to me at least.

Ennui, it looks like the BBC has removed the file. Sorry. : (

With respect to working with Summers Brad De Long suggests Larry is not arrogant at all as a boss indeed quite the opposite.

I would have thought being Treasury secretary would have let any arrogance hang high.

perhaps you maybe wrong!!

Not having done probably much more reading regarding that speech at the time (2005?)than Nick I hesitate to make a judgment, but my recollection was simply that he proffered some provocative views re the lack of woman in high level positions in engineering – at a conference on minorities in the science workforce.

Whether the hypotheses he presented were right or wrong – my understanding was that were certainly worthy of debate – you would hope at Harvard that they would be examined on their merit and not rely on sexist sensitivities to argue a case or stifle debate.

Quite apart from the above, it will be very interesting to see how Obarma uses Summers and deals with the massive ego. It is very hard to imagine Summers as a ‘team’ player and, given that the economy is front and centre for Obarma, we not have long to wait!

The ‘this’ link is not working – I remain curious as to Summer’s “cute” speaking style.