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Jeffrey Sachs

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01 / belief

I believe that knowledge matters and that the more clarity, the more evidence, the more appropriate an analysis, the more likely we can find a good outcome to things.

“I believe that knowledge matters and that the more clarity, the more evidence, the more appropriate an analysis, the more likely we can find a good outcome to things.”
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Jeffrey Sachs
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Conversations with Tyler

02 / belief

For me, it also went off in my head as I learned more about this, which is that Kennedy and Khrushchev stumbled into nearly the end of the world in October of 1962, and Kennedy made his share of terrible mistakes.

“For me, it also went off in my head as I learned more about this, which is that Kennedy and Khrushchev stumbled into nearly the end of the world in October of 1962, and Kennedy made his share of terrible mistakes.”
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Jeffrey Sachs
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Conversations with Tyler

04 / belief

First of all, I think that anthropology in the form of getting a very deep, extra-thick description of a society is a very important kind of approach, one of many.

“First of all, I think that anthropology in the form of getting a very deep, extra-thick description of a society is a very important kind of approach, one of many.”
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Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

07 / belief

Just extraordinarily difficult. It’s why I also worry about Africa’s demographic trends because obviously I think a lot about the difficulties of development.

“Just extraordinarily difficult. It’s why I also worry about Africa’s demographic trends because obviously I think a lot about the difficulties of development.”
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Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

09 / belief

I think that the general idea of Robert Barro [and Xavier Sala-i-Martin] from 20 years ago that every time you approach by half the way to the frontier you lose about two percentage points of growth is about right.

“I think that the general idea of Robert Barro [and Xavier Sala-i-Martin] from 20 years ago that every time you approach by half the way to the frontier you lose about two percentage points of growth is about right.”
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Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

10 / recommendation

In my view, we have too few of those. That’s why I’m constantly arguing for both more aid, which are grants, but also more financing through institutions because I think both of these can improve the human condition, make the world safer, help more countries get out of their crises, and so forth.

“In my view, we have too few of those. That’s why I’m constantly arguing for both more aid, which are grants, but also more financing through institutions because I think both of these can improve the human condition, make the world safer, help more countries get out of their crises, and so forth.”
Speaker
Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

12 / evaluation

About 25 years ago, I started looking more and more at my own work and how economic structure, geography, resource base, and so forth affected development.

“About 25 years ago, I started looking more and more at my own work and how economic structure, geography, resource base, and so forth affected development.”
Speaker
Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

14 / evaluation

” Now you can carry this too far because the insane version of this, and the unbelievably destructive version of this, was Lenin and Stalin.

“” Now you can carry this too far because the insane version of this, and the unbelievably destructive version of this, was Lenin and Stalin.”
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Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

15 / evaluation

I worry very much about places like Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, Mali because they’re landlocked, they are in incredibly difficult physical geographic conditions, very dry, drying most likely, warming, massive disease burden, most of them with no easy natural resource base, too far from ports to do any kind of assembly operations.

“I worry very much about places like Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, Mali because they’re landlocked, they are in incredibly difficult physical geographic conditions, very dry, drying most likely, warming, massive disease burden, most of them with no easy natural resource base, too far from ports to do any kind of assembly operations.”
Speaker
Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

16 / prediction

I have another paper coming out in a couple of weeks that I really like showing, in an overlapping generations context, how you can get weird outcomes. But what’s always true is that, with enough government intervention, redistribution of various kinds from old to young, for example, from capital owners to labor owners, of course you can make everybody better off — because pure technological change by definition, if properly handled, can make everybody better off.

“I have another paper coming out in a couple of weeks that I really like showing, in an overlapping generations context, how you can get weird outcomes. But what’s always true is that, with enough government intervention, redistribution of various kinds from old to young, for example, from capital owners to labor owners, of course you can make everybody better off — because pure technological change by definition, if properly handled, can make everybody better off.”
Speaker
Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

18 / evaluation

Addressing a financial panic is a condition that needs to be addressed as its own pathology. That’s my view that if you approached it that way — because I remember arguing with Summers that weekend, and many weekends after that — approach it as unlocking the financial panic, not as the need for reaching a $1.

“Addressing a financial panic is a condition that needs to be addressed as its own pathology. That’s my view that if you approached it that way — because I remember arguing with Summers that weekend, and many weekends after that — approach it as unlocking the financial panic, not as the need for reaching a $1.”
Speaker
Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler
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