The Times weighs in today with a piece on how academics who defend Wall Street also tend to make a lot of money from Wall Street. I am shocked, shocked by this.

When asked about the financial benefits of his outside activities, Mr. Pirrong replied, “That’s between me and the I.R.S.”

This is, of course, a point first and most prominently made by Charles Ferguson in his terrific documentary about the financial crisis, Inside Job, in which he skewered far more prominent academics at Harvard and Columbia for taking money from Wall Street—without disclosing it—and then arguing pro-Wall Street positions.

In the wake of that film, a few prominent economics departments, including Harvard’s, promised that they would do more to disclose their professors’ outside sources of revenue.

Which brings us, inevitably, to Larry Summers, a man who only recently was a leading candidate to chair the Federal Reserve and who, I am confident, has no plans to abdicate a role in public life. Some of his extracurricular activities—serving on the board of an online university (not Harvard’s), investing in a company that lends at high interest rates to people who have trouble borrowing money —have been documented in the press.

But you will find no mention of them or any other paid outside activity on Larry Summers’ personal website. Nor will you find any disclosure on his Kennedy School website. Hey—isn’t the practice of transparency a part of good public policy? And isn’t the Kennedy School supposed to teach public policy?

Interestingly, you will find on Summers’ website a contact for media inquiries, a Gmail address for a woman named Kelly Friendly. Her work with Summers appears to be a side gig for Friendly; according to her LinkedIn page, she’s the director of marketing at Flagship Ventures, a Boston-based private equity firm. (And nothing against Friendly, by the way; it’s hard to imagine that her employer would mind her having a strong connection to Larry Summers.) It’s just telling that if the press wants to reach Summers, they’re encouraged not to go through Harvard, but through a woman at a private equity firm.

There is no “media contact” listed for Summers on his Kennedy School page.

I don’t mean to pick on Summers, because I’m sure that the push towards greater disclosure in Harvard’s economics department—which still lists Summers as a member—never amounted to much, and there are likely any number of Harvard professors who could be faulted for the same lack of transparency.

(By the way, on his website, Columbia’s Joe Stiglitz has a section listing his speeches; Yale’s Robert Shiller has a section titled “Disclosure of Outside Activities“; I took a look about the personal and econ department web pages of about half a dozen different Harvard professors, including Ken Rogoff, Greg Mankiw, Martin Feldstein and Robert Barro, and could not find one word of disclosure about paid outside activities. Lot of stuff about how many articles they’ve written, though. To be fair, I might have missed something…but if the disclosure is that hard to find, one has to assume that the discloser doesn’t really want you to find it.)

But Summers’ case is high-profile, and he could set a good example of ethical leadership by disclosing at least who pays him for what (if not how much). And then, of course, there’s the issue of how much time one of Harvard’s highest-paid professors actually spends doing stuff for Harvard, versus even more lucrative things in the private sector.

A funny thing about the Times’ piece: It singles out a couple of academics you’ve never heard of before. Imagine how much more shocking it would have been if it had examined one of the most powerful economists in the world.