One of his most controversial moments was a memo he wrote at the World Bank endorsing sending pollution to lower-wage countries. He also cost Harvard University $1 billion from some poorly made interest-rate bets.
Summers is known among colleges to be the sort of person who considers most people to be intellectually beneath him.
A journalist Felix Salmon summarized him best when he said: 'Summers, winner of the prestigious John Bates Clark medal in economics and nephew of two economics Nobel laureates, is very smart, often wrong, and never in doubt.'
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