ECONOMIC TRANSITION TEAM TAKES SHAPE.(Main)

Byline: New York Times

Robert B. Reich, the head of President-elect Bill Clinton's economic transition team, has made assignments to a dozen advisers to help frame specific economic proposals for the new administration, several advisers said Wednesday.

Several advisers said in interviews that Reich had asked the following people to oversee work in specific areas and present firm policy proposals by the middle of December:

Lawrence H. Summers, a Harvard economics professor on leave to be chief economist at the World Bank, will oversee work on economic policy, including tax policy and whether fiscal stimulus is needed. Summers is often mentioned as a …