Talk:Andrei Shleifer

Untitled old thread
I moved the page's old content (without copyright infringements) to Andrei Shleifer/Temp. I will add some information about the settlement. Martg76 2 July 2005 07:21 (UTC)

On the user "Evista" - This user has only edited the Andrei Shleifer case and is probably close to the person or is indeed him. What I object to is the user has constantly deleted entries that have received coverage in the papers and transforming it into some form of legalese. While it is admirable of the user for putting Shleifer in a better light, it does not tell the full picture. Evista's parochialism is showing. Institutional Investor published a link to an investigative article which contained 30 pages on the Shleifer affair. Why Evista would delete this particular article is concerning. The other links of the articles are usually 1 or 2 pages long but the one with 30 pages on Shleifer being deleted? Now that's just choosing history whichever suits the user. Not very encyclopedic at all. Nor does it show much for the academic integrity of Shleifer and/or his supporters.

I'm not sure who wrote the above statement. In any case, I apologize if some of the edits were coming across as legalese as opposed to working on accuracy, but, for example, there was no finding of Harvard or Shleifer liable for treble damages. The references and quotes from the Institutional Investor article in the paragraph seemed more designed to inflame as opposed to inform. --Evista 20:17, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

He lost the case, but let's be precise
I think we should be careful in the controversy segment, but we needn't try to whitewash what happened. If necessary for clarity, let's add material rather than add legalese!Smallbones 07:53, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Unsourced material
I removed some unsourced material. It looks like this article could use more sources/improvement. Anyways, --Tom (talk) 13:02, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * You shouldn't take out material like that and you cannot source cats. Andrei Shleifer is Jewish, not Russian btw. Tulungagung (talk) 23:32, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

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Possibly intentional whitewashing of biography
At some point in 2023, the 'Scandal' section of this article was removed completely (possibly in an edit which was reverted for containing copyrighted content, or possibly in the edit made to remove that content; it's not clear which.) Now, Shleifer's work and legal issues with HIID and his multimillion dollar settlement receive only one line of discussion, where they previously received two well-cited paragraphs. While Shleifer did not officially admit wrongdoing in the settlement, it is widely acknowledged in the economics community that these legal issues are what have prevented Shleifer from winning the Nobel Prize to date, and that they contributed on a broader geopolitical level to the failure of economic reforms in late 1990s Russia (see e.g. https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2btfpiwkwid6fq6qrokcg/home/how-harvard-lost-russia). This is an important part of Shleifer's biography and of Russian economic history, and its removal does a disservice to this article.

I would propose adding back the 'Scandal' section and much of the material previously contained in it, potentially with some edits to not run afoul of WP:BLP. Unless there are objections to this edit, I will make it within the next few days; just wanted to provide a heads-up here so any objections can be raised in advance. Sammytwiki (talk) 23:03, 9 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I agree with restoring the content. Thriley (talk) 23:28, 9 July 2023 (UTC)