No he won’t. Barro is a top drawer economist in the Chicago tradition of Friedman/Stigler.
Summers was a famous economist’s son in law (Paul Samuelson). Summers is a lightweight who relied on diversity to survive and it blew up in his face.
>> Summers was a famous economist’s son in law (Paul Samuelson). <<
Close, but not quite:
Samuelson is Summers’ uncle — the older brother of his father, Robert Summers.
Kenneth Arrow is another uncle — a brother to Larry Summers’ mother.
In my opinion, moreover, Robert Summers is the best and most useful economist of the lot — thanks to his first-rate empirical work on international comparisons of purchasing power parity.