“Similarly, though the United States is one of the world’s richest economies by per capita income, it ranks only around seventeenth in reported life satisfaction. It is superseded not only by the likely candidates of Finland, Norway, and Sweden, which… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.” — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“Is there a way forward, when campaign financing and mega-lobbying have displaced the common good and have led Americans to despair about the functioning… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“Over the course of nearly a half-century, Cuba, Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Namibia, Mozambique, Chile, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“The vast differences in power contributed to faulty social theories of these differences that are still with us today. When a society is economically… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“The scale of U.S. military operations is remarkable. The U.S. Department of Defense has (as of a 2014 inventory) 4,855 military facilities, of which… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“Here is my recommendation for President Trump and the new Congress. Turn immediately to our glorious national institutions, the National Academies of Science, Engineering,… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“The current situation reminds me too much of the fable of the farmer whose chickens are dying. The local priest gives one remedy af-… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“Similarly, though the United States is one of the world’s richest economies by per capita income, it ranks only around seventeenth in reported life… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“The political beauty of our online age is that it’s now actually feasible—and urgently necessary—to reengage the public in just this way. In Aristotle’s… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called a corporatocracy.” — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“This is an age of impunity, a time when the rich and powerful get away with their misdeeds, and are even lauded for them… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
