Talk:Lawrence Summers

message: Holy effin' shitake... This article is extremely biased against Summers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.218.63.111 (talk) 00:55, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you really think that? The Academic Economist part doesn't have one single citation nor one single critic! I would like to hear you when someone get the time to explain his pivotal role in the de-industralization of the United States and his complete sold-out of strategic enterprises (Magnequench sounds familiar?)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.193.202.98 (talk) 20:06, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bias?

message: It is impossible to discuss this fellow's tenure at Harvard without discussing the Political Correctness which is pervasive there.  I don't say this as any particular fan of Summers, but it was Harvard's opposition to freedom of thought which brought him down.  And, without freedom of thought, a university devolves into something less than an open forum for debating ideas with which one might disagree.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.44.144.158 (talk) 02:08, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Political Correctness at Harvard

message: Huangdi: Your one-word justification for removing Pinker's strong defense of Summers, "mischaracterized" is cryptic and unhelpful. Can you explain why this deserves to be removed?
MOE37x3 15:19, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I reinserted a copyedited version pending a real reason for its removal. jdb ❋ (talk) 19:19, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pinker 

message: I realize that Summers is a controversial figure but I find it incongruous that an encyclopedia biography should devote almost twice as much space to "controversies" as it does to the rest of his life and career. The body of the article is virtually a stub. Shouldn't his life be expanded and, most particularly, the controversy section edited down? I'm not suggesting deleting material, just editing it. I don't want to do this without some comment. WBcoleman 02:25, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please tell us what his notable work is.  You don't hear much about it in the economics journals these days. It's not that brilliant.  You should engage in more objective reporting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.91.92.200 (talk • contribs) 22:24, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Makes sense to me. Binarybits (talk) 03:49, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversies 

message: Larry Summers has worked in both the Clinton and Reagan administrations.  Does anyone know what his official party affiliation is? 152.17.125.18 18:46, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Party Affiliation 

message: Is he a jew (since his uncle apparently is)? -- 129.13.186.1 23:19, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious affiliation 

message: The article states: "In 2002, Summers controversially used the race card, stating that a campaign by Harvard and MIT faculty to have their universities divest from companies with Israeli holdings was part of a larger trend among left-leaning academics that is 'anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intent.'" How is this "[using] the race card"? Are Jews a distinct race? Can he not critique such a policy without concern as to race? It makes no sense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.146.110.32 (talk • contribs) 15:59, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Race Card"? 

message: I reverted the removal of the item below from this article. In my mind, this is useful information because it is the sort of information that is good to know in weighing whether Summer's comments can be faily characterized as a lack of support of women's education. Of course, this doesn't provide a blanket excuse for any negative comments he might make about women. 
"On the other hand, Summers, when he was Chief Economist of the World Bank, famously promoted the idea that investing in a woman's education was the "single most efficient investment that the Bank can make." Consequently, the World Bank invested millions of dollars in the 1990's on improving women's education in the world. This has, arguably, contributed a great deal to narrowing the gender education gap around the world." Antonrojo 19:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Differences Between Males and Females Section 

message: The section on the world bank memo was long and convoluted, and cited very few sources. There's another article on the memo (though whether there should be is another debate entirely), so I pointed the discussion in that direction. I then removed the text from the memo, which I don't think belongs on this page (and might not belong in Wikipedia at all), cleaned up some of the prose, and added references to a bunch of the quotes in the section.
When searching for a source for the controversy surrounding the memo, the best I could do was to find recent newspaper articles making reference to it. Since it took place in 1991, it's not too surprising that much of the discussion isn't online; However I think the articles do a good job of describing what took place. Still, 'primary sources' would make a nice addition. - Fluxdrip 23 March, 2006
I think a short writeup of the memo (excerpt) is good;
until I just now read Summers memo, I had no idea
that it was just a part of a longer memo with a very different point.
Being in its own short article is probably right;
the brief summary here hits the point and counterpoint,
and is good. - Greg Price 20:52, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  World Bank Memo 

message: Summers is still the President of Harvard University, and will remain so until July 1.  I don't know who changed the succession box, but please don't do it again until Summers actually leaves office. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.103.29.10 (talk • contribs) 12:52, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derek Bok accession 

message: I cut down the section on Summers' women-in-science controversy
to a very terse summary and a  link to the appropriate section of Sex and intelligence.
The latter has all the content of the old section here (if I do say so myself -- I wrote its present version =) )
and seems the right place for it.
Meanwhile I trimmed references that have expired with age,
made sure the important ones were kept in the new version,
and removed them from here.
If there's a template better than  for linking to a section,
please apply it.
Greg Price 00:18, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Differences between males and females" -> [[Sex and intelligence#Controversy]] 

message: "Summers is ... the nephew of two Nobel laureates in economics" -- From Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: "Although it was not one of the awards established in the will of Alfred Nobel, the economics laureates receive their diploma and gold medal from the Swedish monarch at the same December 10 ceremony in Stockholm as the Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature. ... The prestige of the prize derives in part from its association with the awards created by Alfred Nobel's will, an association which has often been a source of controversy. The prize is commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics or, more correctly, as the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics." -- (a) Since this prize is not actually "a Nobel Prize", do we need to clarify the wording in the article? And (b) perhaps even more importantly, is there even any point in bothering to include in this article information on whose nephew Summers is? We don't seem to do this in other biographical articles. -- 201.78.233.162 13:16, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's doubtful that Summers will ever get a Noble prize. This is just propaganda from Harvard sources. His father, Robert Summers, has done more for economics with his development of the Penn World Tables. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.91.92.200 (talk • contribs) 22:24, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

text: It was also doubtful that Paul Krugman, an economic commentator and social critic who did some real economics a long time ago, would ever win the prize, but he did.  If Krugman deserves a prize then Summers deserves two.  Krugman's prize was political, a sop to the left wing after years of awarding Nobels to conservative and classical liberal economists.  I would not put Summers at the top of my list for the Nobel but he is certainly a second-rank if not a first-rank candidate.  Also, everybody in the profession calls the economics prize the Nobel Prize although the correct name is as posted by user 201.78.233.162.  Finally, anyone interested in intellectual history will find it worthwhile to know that Summers has not one but two Nobel Prize-winning uncles; it helps you understand the man. 71.247.77.179 (talk) 06:28, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nobel laureates in economics? 

message: This article is puff piece written by Harvard insiders. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.224.208.65 (talk • contribs) 01:50, 24 June 2007  (UTC)
: The whole article, and the ridiculously long lead section, in particular, seem -- at first glance -- to be the product of a bunch of Harvard academics (for and against Summers) and largely written by Summers, himself (or his promotional agent).  At this date, not exactly what I'd expect from a serious Wikipedia article about a prominent politician/academic.
:~ Penlite (talk) 06:35, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: puff piece

message: Several sources, including the Harvard Crimson, have stated that the email announcing that Summers would be the next President was a prank by the Harvard Lampoon. Considering the lack of press coverage and the suspect phrasing of the email, that's pretty much clear by now. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 140.247.42.50 (talk) 01:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reinstatement a prank 

message: I removed the POV template from the article because there was no discussion of it on this talk page.  If somebody still thinks the article needs the tag, please explain the reasoning here so it can be discussed.  --Sapphic 22:29, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV tag? 

message: Deleted section on 'speculation' of Treasure Department secretary; keep it off Wikipedia until it is fact.  Until then it's gossip and speculation and belongs in Wikinews. 65.215.94.13 (talk) 23:21, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cabinet speculation 

message: The sources for this section were jumbled. Certainly 
:
is no source on the intense public reaction to Summers' speech? I've replaced it with the link to the press article that indeed describes the reaction, and had been a second link to the speech itself. Markus Poessel (talk) 12:25, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subsection "differences between the sexes" 

message: Larry Summers has now held senior positions in two Democratic administrations, and the New York Times describes him as a liberal. If we're going to label him a conservative, I think we need some sources explicitly saying so. Binarybits (talk) 13:07, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Conservative" 

message: Some people seem to be under the impression that it's somehow inappropriate to mention Summers' Jewish heritage. I'm not aware of any explicit Wikipedia polices on the topic, but a quick perusal of Rahm Emanuel, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Timothy F. Geithner, Eric Holder, Ray LaHood, Susan Rice, Ken Salazar, Eric Shinseki, and Tom Vilsack suggests that Wikipedia commonly discussed the religious or ethnic heritage of senior Obama administration officials. So I'd like to see a more detailed explanation of how, exactly, it's inappropriate to mention Summers's heritage. Binarybits (talk) 16:28, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Leaving aside the fact that you need sources when you add things to a page, this is an interesting point.  Ken Salazar's page includes assertions that he is a "12th generation American." Nineteenth century biographies routinely began with a geneology often going back hundreds of years, but routinely three or four generations. Is that where we are going with all this? Confining the discussion to Americans, do we now write about everybody's grandparents, giving space to consideration of which ones attended mass, which immigrated form Albania?  What are the implications of distinguising one economist form another on the grounds that one is Catholic, one Jewish and one a "12th generation American?"   My impression is that generally we have mentioned parents only  when the parents are notable.   And ancestry and religion only when it is relevent to the career.  Frankly, giving this kind of space to which cabinet officer or politician or economist has French blood and which one is a "12th generation American." gives me the creeps.Historicist (talk) 18:06, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Verifiability is a fair point. It's easy to find references to the fact that he's Jewish; I don't see an obvious citation for the details about his mother. So unless others can find better sources, I think it would be reasonable to simply add a sentence about him being of Jewish heritage without going into detail about his grandparents. With that said, I don't think "gives Historicist the creeps" is a a reasonable standard for removing material from Wikipedia. Many people consider a public figure's ethnicity of interest, and such information is frequently reported by reliable sources. Therefore, it should go in Wikipedia absent a good reason to exclude it. Binarybits (talk) 19:02, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Unsourced information is not acceptable for addition to articles. One can either source the "facts" about his grandmother/mother to reliable secondary sources or not include them. Hipocrite (talk) 21:36, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Right, that's what I said: we can easily find reliable sources for the fact that he's of Jewish heritage, and leave out the details about his grandmother. Binarybits (talk) 23:44, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

text: I agree - in a WP:BLP, we need good reasons to include material about the subject. It's no enough that it's verifiable.  So I'd like someone to make a good argument for describing Summers's heritage before including it.  And it's perfectly reasonable and ethical for us to be sensitive to stereotypes that have historically been used commonly by racists and thugs (i.e. Jewish bankers and moneylenders).  --ElKevbo (talk) 02:35, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Could you please be more specific about which part of WP:V is violated by mentioning that Summers is Jewish? I'm not seeing it. Binarybits (talk) 03:33, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Most well written bios include mention of the person's ethnicity under a family section or the like. As long as it is properly sourced it is ok. There seems to be some interpretation that ethnicity needs to be somehow notable in order to include it, but that only applies to the lead sentence or section which makes sense. Anyways, Tom 04:10, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jewish heritage 

message: I corrected the fact that Larry Summers was succeeded as Chief Economist of the World Bank by Michael Bruno, not by Joe Stiglitz. On Stiglitz's page, it is already correct that he was preceded by Michael Bruno, not by Summers.
David Ellerman (talk) 19:23, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Correction: was not succeeded by Joe Stiglitz

message: Space is found for every left-wing criticism of Summers, but little room is made for the more common praise of him across the political spectrum. THF (talk) 20:49, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent point.  I hope that you, or someone famiiar with his career,will take the time to do that.Historicist (talk) 21:41, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unbalanced tag

message: I removed the statement linking the controversy to the later resignation because while the two are likely connected, unless Summers states this was his reason for resigning his post, it is specualtion on our part that it was his motivation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.35.133.66 (talk) 18:42, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Resignation and controversy 

message: After his stint in the Reaganomics brain trust, he returned to Harvard to serve as one of the university’s youngest professors. In 1988, he was Michael Dukakis’s chief economic advisor. This much the article acknowledges.  But the article entirely omits one phase of his career.  In 1990, Lithuania, a restive Soviet republic seeking independence, hired Summers to advise on that country’s economic transformation. This was Summers’s first opportunity to put his theories into practice. The results were literally suicidal: in 1990, when Summers first arrived, Lithuania’s suicide rate was 26.1 per 100,000 and falling. Just five years after Summers got his hands on Lithuania’s economy, the suicide rate nearly doubled to 45.6 per 100,000, worse than any other ex-Soviet republic in transition. In fact, it was the highest suicide rate in the world, suggesting something particularly harsh and brutal about the economic transition in that country as opposed to the other former Soviet republics in similar transition phases. In 1992, after just two years of Summers-nomics, Lithuanians voted the communist party back into power, the first East European nation to do so. Dog Whisperer (talk) 22:37, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Great idea! The "edit" button is at the top of the page. Binarybits (talk) 22:12, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biographical information missing 

message: There's been a sustained campaign to cast the Pritchett/Summers memo as a serious policy proposal rather than a work of satire (which is what both of its authors say it was). AFAICT this is based entirely on innuendo.
For example, before I edited it the section said "There is no documentation that the report was meant as humorous until that time, and it remains the only claim Summers has ever made about satirical authorship." Given that this was a private memo never intended for public consumption, it's totally unsurprising that there's no "documentation" about its authors' intentions, or that it has a different character than his public writing.
Wikipedia's role is to fairly summarize reliable sources, not to inject our own suspicions into the article. If there are reliable sources disputing Summers and Prithcett's claims that the article was a work of satire, we should mention those. But we shouldn't insinuate this based on the suspicions of Wikipedia editors. Binarybits (talk) 22:01, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memo 

message: What is with the quote about banks below his signature? Is that an appropriate and relevant place to put that? -- And Rew 19:00, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote below Signature 

message: Regarding the sentence in the lead that reads -
:"Summers has also been criticized for the economic policies he advocated as Treasury Secretary and in later writings."
This really ought to be expanded on or deleted. Saying "he's been criticized for economic policies" is incredibly vague. What economist/politician hasn't at some point been criticized for economic policies? NickCT (talk) 13:56, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The lede is supposed to be a summary of the body of the article, so being vague or unspecific there may not necessarily be wrong, if the specifics is clear in the relevant sub-section(s) of the article. However, I don't think the sentence is a good summary of what the article says about his time about Treasury Secreatary, so I agree it should go or be expanded. And since this is a BLP, the best thing is probably to delete it for the time being, and then it would be good if someone wrote a new paragraph about his time as treasure secretary and in NEC. Regards, Iselilja (talk) 14:14, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the lead 

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 22:58, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there any source saying Lawrence Summers' religion is "None"? Bus stop (talk) 23:05, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion|Request for Comments]] 

message: It was mentioned with a small note that Rajan had talked at a convention in 2005, and that Summers said he was misguided. What it didn't state
was that Rajan warned about the financial crisis in 2008 and said that too much loans could lead to a bubble, and that afterwards Summers called him 
a "luddite", which refers to British workers after the industrial revolution that protested against machines. Which has made the word into a 
nickname for people that are against technology. So he called the man that predicted the financial crisis three years earlier a technology brake.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.191.202.200 (talk) 11:26, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Raghuram Rajan and Lawrence Summers 

message: The lead (lede), prior to my edits today, was completely inconsistent with Wikipedia guidance (WP:LEAD).  Lede sections are supposed to be short summaries of the article -- only about FOUR paragraphs or less, according to WP:LEAD, and, in the case of living persons, focus on summarizing their basic identity and principal roles in the FIRST paragraph.
The prior lede -- even in the crucial first paragraph -- absurdly over-emphasized details about his Harvard academic identity and career, and underplayed his most significant roles in world affairs: U.S. Treasury Secretary (Under Pres. Clinton), and principal economic advisor to Pres. Obama.  Simply absurd.
Further, the numerous, voluminous lede paragraphs (which I did not edit, but someone should) completely violate the entire WP:LEAD concept of a Wikipedia "lede" ("lead"), which is SUPPOSED to be a SHORT SUMMARY of the article. Instead, the current lead section is an entire Wikpedia article in itself -- and largely unsourced.
In fact, absurdly, the "lead" of this article is longer than the combined lead sections for the Wikpedia articles on two U.S. presidents for whom Summers worked. Get real.
Most of the current lead section needs to be stripped, or severely condensed -- and reduced to Wikipedia WP:LEAD standards.  
~ Penlite (talk) 06:02, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead inconsistent with Wikipedia guidelines 

message: This article has been severely abused by various commentators ("editors" seems an unfairly generous term) who have used this article as a political platform to make unsubstantiated statements (including countless statements with NO reference citations of corroborating online sources).
Wikipedia is an "online encyclopedia," validated by reference citations citing external sources (very preferably from reputable, relatively neutral (WP:NPOV) sources, such as articles in major news media, peer-reviewed articles in academic journals, or official documents of institutions and agencies relatively neutral on the subject -- or making precise statutory filings subject to substantial public scrutiny and accountability (e.g.: Official quarterly filings of labor statistics, rather than vague, partisan presidential speeches on the topic).
WIkipedia is NOT a place for undocumented claims, nor "I saw it myself" statements. Editors should not be their own sources. Controversial statements -- ESPECIALLY about living persons (WP:BLP) -- should be accompanied by supporting references linking to online articles from relatively neutral, professional and very substantial sources. (e.g.: The New York Times or Wall Street Journal -- not a political-faction magazine, nor a student newspaper.)
All other material is appropriately subject to deletion, consistent with Wikipedia guidelines.
~ Penlite (talk) 08:42, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please document statements from substantial online sources, or don't post. 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: At issue is the quote "One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they're looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an asshole. This was the latter case." He doesn't say "The Winklevoss twins are assholes" directly, but he does imply it indirectly. Regardless, it seems to me that Wikipedia is full of quotes from article subjects disparaging other people and those quotes seem to be fine, so what's the problem with this one? Examples:
* Mojo Nixon:  Mojo Nixon calls the members of Metallica assholes.
* Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric Moncassin:  Moncassin calls Richard Virenque an asshole
* Duncan D. Hunter: Hunter calls the President an asshole
There's probably a lot more, and obviously there's hundreds, if not thousands, of quotes disparaging other people while using words other than "asshole". So I don't think there's any rationale for removing this quote that doesn't even directly call the twins assholes. It's pretty harmless. I request a reply. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SUNY osw98 (talk • contribs) 
: I will address the quote in the context of the present article first. The addition of the quote attributed to Summers regarding the Winklevoss twins directly disparages them. Since the quote does not add any value to the article other than to disparage them, it is a violation of WP:BLP. We can get just as much information (that Summers wanted no part of their lawsuit against Zuckerberg) without the disparaging comment.
: As to other examples of the use of disparaging quotes in Wikipedia, I will start by arguing that WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is generally a poor argument. However, taking each example in turn:
:* The quote from Mojo Nixon is no more useful in its context than Summers' quote in this article. I may consider addressing that (or I may not; the discussion at hand is about this article).
:* The quote from Frédéric Moncassin is relevant to his biography because it directly relates to his status as an outsider in the cycling world.
:* The quote from Duncan D. Hunter regarding Trump is relevant because it gives insight into his political position.
: If Summers' quote in this article added insight into his character or provided any useful information, it would be fine to include. As it is, it does not add any insight, and serves only to disparage, and therefore should not be included. This is, of course, my opinion, which is why we are having this discussion. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 12:41, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe we're at an impasse: you believe the quote adds value; I do not. I will seek a third opinion through WP:Third opinion. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:05, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

text: Thank you for your input!  If you're satisfied with this response, I'll consider this matter closed. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 01:22, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  calling the Winklevoss twins (indirectly) assholes 

message: Howdy hello folx! I came across this at WP:3O. I have not edited this article before or interacted with y'all, so I hope you'll accept me as a neutral third party. Looking at the quote and the article, I don't think it adds much value to the article. I think this is an issue of WP:BLP and WP:DUE. This quote is cherry picked, and I see no reason why it is any more relevant or due a quote than any other about the matter. The real problem here is not that the quote disparages the Winklevoss twins, but that it reflects only negatively on Summers, and seems to have no value beyond making Summers look bad. There are wayyyy too many BLPs that put undue coverage on events that make their subjects look bad. This quote is not particularly relevant or helpful, and I do not think it should be included per the above policies. Captain Eek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 19:58, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your input!  If you're satisfied with this response, I'll consider this matter closed. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 01:22, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Third opinion

message: When is he ever referred to in WP:RS as "Lawrence Summers"? Larry, please! There are countless examples, but this came through within the last hour. Harfarhs (talk) 12:28, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this comment. I hesitate to change it myself as I'm relatively new to WP, and not sure what the convention is for commonly used nicknames, but I think the vast majority of people know him as Larry Summers, as do reliable sources (here's another) Jameson Nightowl (talk) 03:27, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:UCRN]] 

message: Larry Summers is a member of the Trilateral Commission 24.145.20.191 (talk) 00:56, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trilateral Commission member