“The silence from the executive committee has really been deafening,” Jennifer Doleac, a professor at Texas A&M, said at Friday’s business meeting. The committee, Mr. Blanchard said, is now working to develop such rules. Some members of the executive committee wanted to go further and establish procedures to punish or expel members for violations of the code of conduct. Mr. Blanchard cut off discussion, saying he was hungry and it was time for lunch, these people said. Mr. Blanchard, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, did not dispute that account.

Source: New York Times January 10, 2019 19:21 UTC