Editing Summers memo (section)

==Coverage==
Extensive news articles and discussion regarding this memo were included in the [http://www.finance.senate.gov/download/nomination-of-lawrence-h-summers US Senate hearing records] for Summers' nomination to [[Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs]] in 1993. In this hearing, Summers stated:

{{Quote|The memo was drafted in my office at the World Bank as a comment on a research paper that was being prepared by part of my staff at the World Bank.

As drafted, the memo sought to clarify the strict economic logic by using some rather inflammatory language, not to make any kind of policy recommendation. And I obviously reviewed the memo inadequately before I signed it.

It made no attempt and was never intended in any way as a serious policy recommendation. No sane person favors dumping toxic waste near where anybody lives or thinks that places could be made better off with more toxic waste.}}