Dybvig and Smith on Claudine Gay

from Philip Dybvig, Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics

‘‘I realize I have been too pure. I assumed that a lot of people shared my dream (expressed for example by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King) of ending oppression. However, the dream of most people (especially but not exclusively the oppressed) seems to be becoming the oppressor. This is why there is a strong correlation between abusers of children and people who were abused as children. Claudine Gay has power now and she is the oppressor of any group not favored by her and other people in power. This is a common pattern in governments heading for totalitarianism. First, say you represent the oppressed. Then you get power and oppress non-favored groups. This leaves you in a morally indefensible position that could not survive given free speech, so you do what you can to destroy anyone ("counterrevolutionaries") who disagrees with your narrative.’’

EXCLUSIVE: Statement on Claudine Gay from Vernon Smith, Winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics ''I see Gay as getting her post at Harvard because she was a diversity, equity and inclusion candidate, not on the basis of strong academic qualifications. There are plenty of accomplished blacks who need no such ‘help.’ Harvard is reaping the negative consequences. I am not much concerned about Gay's success in exercising her power as I don't think she has much. She is a discredit to Harvard, and that is being revealed.'' Dr. Smith obtained his PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1955.