ECONIS Select – Global Economy Prize 2011: Lawrence H. Summers

The prize is meant to honor those who have proposed creative, pathbreaking initiatives to deal with globalization.

05/2011

The 2011 Global Economy Prize is awarded to Lawrence H. Summers in the category of Economics.

Lawrence H. Summers is President Emeritus of Harvard University. During the past two decades he has served in a series of senior policy positions, including Vice President of development economics and chief economist of the World Bank, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Director of the National Economic Council for the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2011, and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, from 1999 to 2001.

He received a bachelor of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and was awarded a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1982. In 1983, he became one of the youngest individuals in recent history to be named as a tenured member of the Harvard University faculty. In 1987 Mr. Summers became the first social scientist ever to receive the annual Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and in 1993, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40.

He is currently the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. He and his wife Elisa New, a professor of English at Harvard, reside in Brookline with their six children.
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Literature selected from our database ECONIS:

• Article: Principles for economic recovery and renewal / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Business economics. - Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ISSN 0007-666x, ZDB-ID 9632682. - Bd. 45.2010, 1, S. 3-7
  Keywords: Konjunktur / Beschäftigungspolitik / Wirtschaftspolitik / Gesamtwirtschaftliche Nachfrage / Vertrauen / Bildungspolitik / USA
• Article: How globalization affects tax design / James R. Hines; Lawrence H. Summers
  In: National Bureau of Economic Research: NBER tax policy and the economy. - Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, ISSN 0892-8649, ZDB-ID 10054674. - Bd. 23.2009, S. 123-157
  Keywords: Steuersystem / Einkommensteuer / Verbrauchsteuer / Globalisierung / Landesgröße / Steuerreform / Welt / 1972-2003
• Article: Policymaking for posterity / Lawrence Summers; Richard Zeckhauser
  In: Journal of risk and uncertainty. - Dordrecht [u.a.]: Springer Science + Business Media, ISSN 0895-5646, ZDB-ID 598379. - Bd. 37.2008, 2/3, S. 115-140
  Keywords: Politische Entscheidung / Zeit / Klimaschutz / Abzinsung / Verhaltensökonomik / Theorie
• Article: Opportunities in an era of large and growing official wealth / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Sovereign wealth management. - London: Central Banking Publ., ISBN 1-902182-46-4. - 2007, S. 15-28
  Keywords: Vermögensverwaltung / Währungsreserven / Investmentfonds / Risikomanagement / Portfolio-Management / Welt / 1970-2006
• Title: The U.S. current account deficit and the global economy / Lawrence H. Summers
  Published: 2004
  Series: The. .. Per Jacobsson Lecture; 2004
  Link: http://cosmic.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/webcat/hwwa/edok05/us278g/Lectures2004-summers.pdf
  Signatory: edok05-1625
• Article: Cyclical dynamics in the new economy / Larry Summers
  In: Journal of policy modeling. - New York, NY [u.a.]: Elsevier North-Holland, ISSN 0161-8938, ZDB-ID 4355325. - Bd. 25.2003, 5, S. 525-530
  Keywords: Produktivität / |stw| Wirtschaftswachstum / |stw| New Economy
• Article: The "new economy": background, historical perspective, questions, and speculations / by J. Bradford DeLong and Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Economic review. - Kansas City, Mo., ISSN 0161-2387, ZDB-ID 8620143. - Bd. 86.2001, 4, S. 29-59
  Keywords: Technischer Fortschritt / |stw| Datenverarbeitung / |stw| Elektronisches Handelssystem / |stw| Börsenkrise / |stw| USA / |stw| New Economy
• Article: Six questions for development researchers and policymakers / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Conference on Development Economics: Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1999. - Washington, DC: World Bank, ISBN 0-8213-4905-8. - 2000, S. 21-25
  Keywords: Entwicklungsforschung / |stw| Globalisierung / |stw| Welt
• Article: The challenge of forward progress in South Africa and across the region / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: South African journal of economic and management sciences. - Pretoria, ISSN 1015-8812, ZDB-ID 14958193. - Bd. 3.2000, 3, S. 344-352
  Keywords: Entwicklung / |stw| Wirtschaftsprognose / |stw| Südafrika
• Article: International financial crises: causes, prevention, and cures / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - Bd. 90.2000, 2, S. 1-16
  Keywords: Welt / |stw| Finanzmarktkrise / 1990-1999
• Article: Building an international financial architecture for the 21st century / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Cato Institute: The Cato journal. - Washington, DC: Inst., ISSN 0273-3072, ZDB-ID 8759583. - Bd. 18.1999, 3, S. 321-329
  Keywords: Internationaler Finanzmarkt / |stw| Kapitalmobilität / |stw| Industriestaaten / |stw| Entwicklungsländer
• Article: Equity in a global economy / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Economic policy & equity. - Washington, DC: IMF, ISBN 1-557-75788-7. - 1999, S. 99-105
  Keywords: Globalisierung / |stw| Gerechtigkeit / |stw| Entwicklungsländer / |stw| Industriestaaten
• Article: Distinguished lecture on economics in government: reflections on managing global integration / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The journal of economic perspectives. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Association, ISSN 0895-3309, ZDB-ID 6230180. - Bd. 13.1999, 2, S. 3-18
  Keywords: Wirtschaftsintegration / |stw| Wirtschaftspolitische Beratung / |stw| Welt
• Article: Monetary and fiscal policy for equitable economic growth / Arnold C. Harberger
  In: Income distribution and high-quality growth. - Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-20109-7. - S. 203-241
  Keywords: Geldpolitik / |stw| Finanzpolitik / |stw| Einkommensverteilung / |stw| Wirtschaftswachstum / |stw| Theorie / |stw| Welt
• Article: Wealthier is healthier / Lant Pritchett; Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Journal of human resources. - Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, ISSN 0022-166x, ZDB-ID 2191921. - 31 (1996),4, S. 841-868
  Keywords: Lebensstandard / |stw| Gesundheitswesen / |stw| Kindersterblichkeit / |stw| Welt / 1960-1985
• Title: From Halifax to Lyons: what has been done about crisis management? / International Finance Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University. Peter B. Kenen, ed. Lawrence H. Summers. ..
  Körperschaft: Princeton University / International Finance Section
  Published: Princeton, NJ, 1996
  Series: Essays in international finance; 200
  Keywords: Internationales Währungssystem / |stw| Währungskrise / |stw| Internationaler Finanzmarkt / |stw| Internationale wirtschaftspolitische Koordination / |stw| Internationale Währungspolitik / |stw| Welt
  Signatory: B 295585
• Article: Unemployment benefits and labor market transitions: a multinomial logit model with errors in classification / James M. Poterba and Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The review of economics and statistics. - Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, ISSN 0034-6535, ZDB-ID 2079628. - 77 (1995),2, S. 207-216
  Keywords: Theorie der Arbeitslosigkeit / |stw| Arbeitsuche / |stw| Arbeitslosenversicherung / |stw| Arbeitsmarktstatistik / |stw| Mikroökonometrie / |stw| Theorie / |stw| USA
• Article: How robust is the growth-machinery nexus? / J. Bradford De Long; Lawrence H. Summers
  In: International differences in growth rates. - Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.]: Macmillan [u.a.], ISBN 0-333-61043-1. - S. 5-54
  Keywords: Wirtschaftswachstum / |stw| Innovation / |stw| Welt
• Title: Investing in all the people: educating women in developing countries / Lawrence H. Summers
  Körperschaft: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  Published: Washington, DC: World Bank, 1994
  Series: EDI seminar paper; 45
  Keywords: Frauenbildung / |stw| Bildungsinvestition / |stw| Entwicklungsländer
  Signatory: C 199245
• Title: Desired fertility and the impact of population policies / Lant H. Pritchett; Lawrence H. Summers
  Published: Washington, DC: World Bank, 1994
  Series: Policy research working paper; 1273
  Signatory: 1994 B 372
• Article: Recent lessons of development / Lawrence H. Summers; Vinod Thomas
  In: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development: The World Bank research observer. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISSN 0257-3032, ZDB-ID 2849719. - 8 (1993),2, S. 241-254
  Keywords: Entwicklungspolitik / |stw| Entwicklung / |stw| Entwicklungsländer
• Article: How strongly do developing economies benefit from equipment investment? / J. Bradford de Long; Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Journal of monetary economics. - Amsterdam: Elsevier, ISSN 0304-3932, ZDB-ID 1911557. - 1993,December = Vol. 32, No. 3, S. 395-415
  Keywords: Investition / |stw| Entwicklung / |stw| Produktivität / |stw| Entwicklungsländer / 1960-1991
• Article: Good policy or good luck?: country growth performance and temporary shocks / William Easterly. .
  In: Journal of monetary economics. - Amsterdam: Elsevier, ISSN 0304-3932, ZDB-ID 1911557. - 1993,December = Vol. 32, No. 3, S. 459-483
  Keywords: Neue Wachstumstheorie / |stw| Schock / |stw| Theorie / |stw| Welt / 1960-1988
• Article: Central bank independence and macroeconomic performance: some comparative evidence / Alberto Alesina; Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Journal of money, credit and banking. - Malden, Mass. [u.a.]: Wiley-Blackwell, ISSN 0022-2879, ZDB-ID 2183626. - 25 (1993),2, S. 151-162
  Keywords: Zentralbankautonomie / |stw| Inflation / |stw| Wirtschaftswachstum / |stw| Arbeitslosigkeit / |stw| Realzins / |stw| Welt / 1955-1988
• Article: Taxation and the structure of labor markets: the case of corporatism / Lawrence Summers; Jonathan Gruber; Rodrigo Vergara
  In: The quarterly journal of economics. - Oxford: Univ. Press, ISSN 0033-5533, ZDB-ID 31379. - 108 (1993),2 = No. 433, S. 385-411
  Keywords: Arbeitsmarkt / |stw| Gewerkschaftlicher Organisationsgrad / |stw| Steuerwirkung / |stw| OECD-Staaten / 1965-1980
• Article: The structural-adjustment debate / by Lawrence H. Summers and Lant H. Pritchett
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - 83 (1993),2, S. 383-389
  Keywords: Wirtschaftliche Anpassung
• Article: The stock market, profit, and investment / Olivier Blanchard; Changyong Rhee; Lawrence Summers
  In: The quarterly journal of economics. - Oxford: Univ. Press, ISSN 0033-5533, ZDB-ID 31379. - 108 (1993),1 = No. 432, S. 115-136
  Keywords: Börsenkurs / |stw| Kapitalanlage / |stw| Kapitalertrag / |stw| USA / 1900-1990
• Title: Finance and its reform: beyond laissez-faire / Gerard Caprio, Jr. and Lawrence H. Summers
  Körperschaft: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / Financial Sector Development Department
  Published: Washington, DC: Financial Sector Development Dep., World Bank, 1993
  Series: Policy research working papers; 1171
  Keywords: Kapitalmarktliberalisierung / |stw| Systemtransformation / |stw| Welt / |stw| Osteuropa
  Signatory: W 480 (1171)
• Title: Unemployment benefits, labor market transitions, and spurious flows: a multinomial logit model with errors in classification / James M. Poterba; Lawrence H. Summers
  Published: Cambridge, Mass.: NBER, 1993
  Series: NBER working paper series; 4434
  Signatory: 1993 K 3344
• Article: Macroeconomic policy and long-run growth / J. Bradford De Long; Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Policies for long-run economic growth. - [Kansas City, Mo.]. - S. 93-128
• Article: Equipment investment and economic growth: how strong is the nexus? / J. Bradford de Long; Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Brookings papers on economic activity. - Washington, DC: Inst., ISSN 0007-2303, ZDB-ID 1870087. - 1992,2, S. 157-199
  Keywords: Investition / |stw| Wirtschaftswachstum / |stw| Produktivität / |stw| Welt / 1960-1990
• Article: Macroeconomic policy and long-run growth / J. Bradford De Long and Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Economic review. - Kansas City, Mo., ISSN 0161-2387, ZDB-ID 8620143. - 77 (1992),4, S. 5-29
  Keywords: Produktivität / |stw| Wirtschaftswachstum / |stw| Geldpolitik / |stw| Wirtschaftspolitik / 1950-1991
• Article: Ten lessons of the debt crisis / Masood Ahmed; Lawrence H. Summers
  In: International economic insights. - Washington, DC, ISSN 1050-8481, ZDB-ID 11172757. - 3 (1992),4, S. 15-19
  Keywords: Auslandsschuldendienst / |stw| Entwicklungsländer
• Article: The next chapter / by Lawrence H. Summers
  In: International economic insights. - Washington, DC, ISSN 1050-8481, ZDB-ID 11172757. - 3 (1992),3, S. 12-16
  Keywords: Systemtransformation / |stw| Privatisierung / |stw| Osteuropa / |stw| Russland
• Article: Should Keynesian economics dispense with the Phillips curve? / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Issues in contemporary economics; 2: Macroeconomics and econometrics. - 1991. - XXIV, 344 S. - Enth. 12 Beitr.. - Basingstoke [u.a.]: Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-52478-0. - 2 (1991), S. 3-20
  Keywords: Phillips-Kurve / |stw| Keynesianismus / |stw| Theorie
• Article: Consumption growth parallels income growth: some new evidence / Christopher D. Carroll and Lawrence H. Summers
  In: National saving and economic performance. - Chicago [u.a.]: Univ. of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-04404-1. - S. 305-343
  Keywords: Einkommenshypothese / |stw| OECD-Staaten / 1960-1985
• Article: Speculative dynamics / David M. Cutler, James M. Poterba and Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The review of economic studies. - Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, ISSN 0034-6527, ZDB-ID 2099287. - 58 (1991),4 = No. 195, S. 529-546
  Keywords: Spekulation / |stw| Kapitalertrag / |stw| Schätztheorie / |stw| Prognose / |stw| Theorie / |stw| USA / 1960-1988
• Article: Japan's high saving rate reaffirmed / Robert Dekle and Lawrence Summers
  In: Monetary and economic studies. - Tokyo, ISSN 0288-8432, ZDB-ID 8784383. - 9 (1991),2, S. 63-89
  Keywords: Sparquote / |stw| Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung / |stw| Japan / |stw| USA
• Article: Equipment investment and economic growth / J. Bradford De Long and Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The quarterly journal of economics. - Oxford: Univ. Press, ISSN 0033-5533, ZDB-ID 31379. - 106 (1991),2 = No. 425, S. 445-502
  Keywords: Investition / |stw| Wirtschaftswachstum / 1960-1985
• Title: Reform in Eastern Europe / Olivier Blanchard. ..
  Körperschaft: World Institute for Development Economics Research / World Economy Group
  Published: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: MIT Press, 1991
  Keywords: Systemtransformation / |stw| Wirtschaftspolitik / |stw| Osteuropa
  Signatory: A 188798
• Article: What is the social return to capital investment? / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: Growth, productivity, unemployment. - Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-04110-3. - S. 113-141
  Keywords: Kapitaltheorie / |stw| Gesamtwirtschaftliche Investitionstheorie / |stw| USA / 1952-1987
• Title: Understanding unemployment / Lawrence H. Summers
  Published: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: MIT Press, 1990
  Keywords: Theorie der Arbeitslosigkeit / |stw| Theorie
  Signatory: B 247781
• Article: Some simple economics of mandated benefits / by Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - 79 (1989),2, S. 177-183
  Keywords: Sozialpolitik / |stw| Betriebliche Sozialleistungen / |stw| Public Choice / |stw| Theorie
• Article: Should governments learn to live with inflation? / By Stanley Fischer and Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - 79 (1989),2, S. 382-387
  Keywords: Inflation / |stw| Geldpolitik / |stw| Theorie
• Article: Beyond the natural rate hypothesis / by Oliver J. Blanchard and Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - 78 (1988),2, S. 182-187
  Keywords: Theorie der Arbeitslosigkeit / |stw| Theorie
• Article: Relative wages, efficiency wages, and Keynesian unemployment / by Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - 78 (1988),2, S. 383-388
  Keywords: Keynesianismus / |stw| Theorie der Arbeitslosigkeit / |stw| Arbeitsmarkttheorie / |stw| Effizienzlohn / |stw| Theorie
• Article: Is increased price flexibility stabilizing? / by J. Bradford De Long and Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - 76 (1986),5, S. 1031-1045
  Keywords: Konjunkturtheorie / |stw| Preis
• Article: The persistence of volatility and stock market fluctuations / by James M. Poterba and Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - 76 (1986),5, S. 1142-1151
  Keywords: Börsenkurs / |stw| USA
• Article: A tax-based test for nominal rigidities / by James M. Poterba, Julio J. Rotemberg, and Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - 76 (1986),4, S. 659-675
  Keywords: Steuerwirkung / |stw| Direkte Steuer / |stw| Indirekte Steuer
• Article: The after-tax rate of return affects private savings / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - Bd. 74.1984, 2, S. 249-253
• Article: The long-term effects of current macroeconomic policies / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The Legacy of Reaganomics. - Washington, D.C: Urban Institute Press, ISBN 0-87766-368-8. - 1984, S. 179-198
• Article: The adequacy of savings / Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Avia Spivak; Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - Bd. 72.1982, 5, S. 1056-1069
• Article: Inflation, the stock market, and owner-occupied housing / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - Bd. 71.1981, 2, S. 429-434
• Article: Capital taxation and accumulation in a life cycle growth model / Lawrence H. Summers
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - Bd. 71.1981, 4, S. 533-544