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Jeffrey D. Sachs

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in Detroit, Michigan, The United States

November 05, 1954

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Jeffrey David Sachs, is an American economist, public policy analyst, and former 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.

Sachs is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a professor of health policy and management at Columbia's School of Public Health. As of 2017, he serves as special adviser to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 global goals adopted at a UN summit meeting in ...more

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China is not the source of our economic problems — corporate greed is

Jeffrey D. Sachs || May 26, 2019 || CNN.com 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 [...]

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Average rating: 3.75 · 18,051 ratings · 1,589 reviews · 94 distinct works • Similar authors

	The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time 3.69 avg rating — 11,296 ratings — published 2005 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Price of Civilization 3.84 avg rating — 2,126 ratings — published 2010 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet 3.65 avg rating — 1,814 ratings — published 2008 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Sustainable Development by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ban Ki-moon (Foreword) 4.21 avg rating — 862 ratings — published 2015 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Bernie Sanders (Foreword) 3.88 avg rating — 437 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions 3.90 avg rating — 421 ratings — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism 3.88 avg rating — 356 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace 3.93 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Macroeconomics in the Global Economy by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Felipe Larraín B. 4.18 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1993 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poland's Jump to the Market Economy 3.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
― Jeffrey Sachs

tags: class, condition, human, maldistribution, poor, poverty, rich, wealth

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“We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.”
― Jeffrey D. Sachs

tags: fairness, humanity-and-society, life, sustainability, wealth

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“The vast differences in power contributed to faulty social theories of these differences that are still with us today. When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority--whether religious, racial, genetic, cultural, or institutional--rather than an accident of timing or geography.”
― Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

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