1.0 link 145978 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-kall/obama-appoints-berkeley-p_b_145978.html Christina Romer, of UC Berkeley, has been appointed to Chair President Elect Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. Romer wrote, if not the book, at least the chapter for Encyclopedia Britannica on the Great Depression [pdf]. News of her appointment should make liberals and women who opposed the appointment of Lawrence Summers, who many predicted (including today's Wall Street Journal) would get this job, somewhat happy, though it looks like Summers will be named White House economic director. ...

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