From my friend Davin comes a link to an Economic Principals article comparing Andrei Shleifer and Rafael Palmeiro. Shleifer was the head of the Harvard Institute for International Development, hired by the US Agency for International Development to counsel the new government of Boris Yeltsin; the project was abruptly ended in 1997 on charges of mismanagement. The article tries to draw the connection between the two men based on the idea of needing a certain trust in governments for institutions to function:
But like Shleifer, Palmiero is a highly talented refugee from a socialist culture, in his case, Cuba. His contempt for government is built-in. It is not surprising that he did not understand his peril when subpoenaed to testify under oath.
Seems tenuous to me…