Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and is director of the Millennium Villages Project. A recent survey by The Economist Magazine ranked Professor Sachs as among the world’s three most influential living economists of the past decade. Sachs is the author, most recently, of “The Age of Sustainable Development," 2015 with Ban Ki-moon.
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Views Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Democratic Naysayers Are Wrong on Medicare for All The American political debate over health care is absurd. Americans pay twice as much as any other nation for health care, and then are told daily that they "can't afford" to switch to a lower-cost system very similar to those of Canada and Europe. If President Donald Trump and the plutocratic... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Key Trump Policies Show a Person Mentally Disordered: Megalomaniacal, Paranoid, and Psychopathic With Donald Trump due to visit Europe again for the G7 summit later this month, European leaders have run out of options for dealing with the US president. They have tried to charm him, persuade him, ignore him, or agree to disagree with him. Yet Trump’s malevolence is bottomless. The only... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 06, 2019 China Isn't the Economic Manipulator in This Trade War. Trump Is The latest round of tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods imposed by Trump last week has seriously rattled world markets. The Chinese currency has now depreciated against the dollar, sending stock markets into a tailspin . Trump immediately blamed China for "currency manipulation," and our... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 28, 2019 The Crisis of Anglo-American Democracy How did the world’s two most venerable and influential democracies – the United Kingdom and the United States – end up with Donald Trump and Boris Johnson at the helm? Trump is not wrong to call Johnson the “ Britain Trump ” ( sic ). Nor is this merely a matter of similar personalities or styles:... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Let Us Be Clear: Trump's Environmental Record Is a Crime Against Humanity For the second time in two weeks, President Donald Trump has claimed that the United States is a leader on reducing carbon-dioxide emissions. He said this first at the G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan, and again Monday at the White House in remarks about his environmental record . It's worth... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 30, 2019 Why Calling Bernie Sanders a 'Radical' Is Nonsense As the Democratic candidates for president continue to roll out policy positions, many pundits are classifying them as centrists (such as former Vice President Joe Biden) and radicals (such as Senator Bernie Sanders and a few others). But let's not confuse semantics and substance. Voters want and... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 27, 2019 China Is Not the Source of Our Economic Problems—Corporate Greed Is China is not an enemy. It is a nation trying to raise its living standards through education, international trade, infrastructure investment, and improved technologies. In short, it is doing what any country should do when confronted with the historical reality of being poor and far behind more... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 16, 2019 America's Illusions of Growth National politics in the United States has become enslaved to macroeconomic indicators that have little bearing on true wellbeing. For many commentators, the snapshot growth rate of 3.2% for the first quarter of 2019, coupled with a decline in the unemployment rate to 3.6% in April, implies that... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Oil and Gas Industry Has Way Too Much Control Over Congress In October 1992, the United States Senate ratified the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the global treaty to stop human-induced global warming, which became enforceable two years later. Yet for the quarter century since then, the US Congress has failed to pass a single major... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 15, 2019 Our Zero Emission Future The solution to human-induced climate change is finally in clear view. Thanks to rapid advances in zero-carbon energy technologies, and in sustainable food systems, the world can realistically end greenhouse-gas emissions by mid-century at little or no incremental cost, and with decisive benefits... Read more |