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The Romer-Harvard Affair
by Felix Salmon
May 22, 2008
May 22, 2008
If you haven't been following the peculiar story of Harvard's failure to poach Christina and David Romer from Berkeley, Shan Wang of the Harvard Crimson has a good round-up. Basically, it was all going to happen, until the very last moment, when Harvard president Drew Faust vetoed the offer made to Christina Romer by the Harvard economics department. No one seems to even understand why she might have done such a thing, and there's certainly no one willing to defend her actions.
David Warsh kicked things off on Tuesday with a column explaining why attracting Romer would have been a great coup for Harvard:
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