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Jeffrey Sachs on Charter Cities and How to Reform Graduate Economics Education (Live at Mason)
31 Mar 2015 24 published claims 2 attributable people
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“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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“If I had to boil down my reread of you into a very short bulletin, that’s what I would say.”
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“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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“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.”
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“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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“Reading this book, it really cleared up for me, I think, a lot of the things you believe.”
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“My take is that China will be a great and successful country in the 21st century.”
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“When I was down in Texas, they have dry lakes around Austin, and they’re rationing the last two or three years I was out there. I think you mentioned Africa, the dryness in the countries.”
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“What I’m going to do — I think we have time for two more questions. I’ll take the two sequentially, and then Jeff can address the two together as he sees fit.”
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“Mexico is a little bit, I would say, just stepping back, a little bit of a mystery for me, why it hasn’t done better in development.”
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“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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“Let me now ask you a question to challenge the audience, and we’re going to turn to Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, who’s somewhat of a forgotten figure. But I think still an important figure at George Mason, and maybe for you too.”
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“I think he really took a complicated subject and said, “There’s one answer, and it comes back to the same approach.”
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“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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“” When I read that, I tend to think somehow we’re mismeasuring institutional quality.”
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“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.”
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“I believe that in general, our international capital markets underperform their role of financing international flows.”
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“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.”
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“The art of good economics, in my view, is trying to figure out what’s important, where, when, and in which context.”
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“” 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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“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.”
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“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.”
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“We avoid that, I think, conceptually, because if you study anything too specific it’s out of date in 10 years.”
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“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.”
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