Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey David Sachsis an American economist and director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor, the highest rank Columbia bestows on its faculty. He is known as one of the world's leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth5 November 1954
CountryUnited States of America
unique our-generation challenges
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms
sweatshops concern
My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.
team car climate
Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments...free-market pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama and team to 'tell us what kind of car to drive'. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do...and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.
country views ideas
The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.
needs mets interest
We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.
feet keys needs
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.
philosophy political want
Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
our-generation together generations
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.
candidates experience forward time
It's time for other candidates to come forward that have experience in development.
crisis donors handle immediate
I want the donors to think ahead, not just handle the immediate crisis,
facing fully realities strength
There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.
cannot poverty terror war won
The war on terror cannot ever be won if the war on poverty isn't won,
capital markets obviously volatility
The volatility of international capital is obviously destabilizing markets today.
fight greatest pandemic
You can't fight the greatest pandemic for years without resources,