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PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS AND DEAN EMERITUS OF COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL R. GLENN HUBBARD

Bloombeg: American Workers Need Another ‘Treaty of Detroit,’ Summers Says

On Nov. 5, Harvard economist Lawrence Summers said that the U.S. shouldn’t pursue any more big trade agreements until the social safety net is strengthened. Summers said in a video conference hosted by the Economic Club of New York that if it were up to him, he would put trade deals on ice “until I felt confident that we were locking in progress on the agenda of combating local disintegration.”

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