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Jeffrey Sachs: belief

31 Mar 2015 Conversations with Tyler Jeffrey Sachs on Charter Cities and How to Reform Graduate Economics Education (Live at Mason)

“I think I get what you’re driving at and I do have a fundamental view of at least how I want to proceed professionally.”

— Jeffrey Sachs

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Speaker
Jeffrey Sachs
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
31 Mar 2015
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…Let me push on this a bit and see if you can convert me into being more of a Sachsian. One of my worries is that the doctors are not actually in charge. It may be the lawyers, which is . . . We’re in a law school, but still, if I may say, in some ways a step down. To some extent you have people voting on the baby, not all of whom even know who the baby is or what the baby’s symptoms are. The differential diagnostics may exist in a kind of platonic realm, but you are more optimistic about them than I am. What would you tell me to address my skepticism and make me more of a Sachsian, given that I have this reluctance to embrace your view the way you hold it? I think I get what you’re driving at and I do have a fundamental view of at least how I want to proceed professionally. But it’s also based a bit on a theory of change. Tell us the theory.…

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