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Jeffrey D. Sachs

(1954) Economist

16 quotes in 33 categories

Jeffrey D. Sachs is an economist.

Quick Facts About Jeffrey D. Sachs

Born: November 5, 1954
Profession: Economist

About Jeffrey D. Sachs

[Wikidata] American economist (born 1954)... | [Wikipedia] Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and public policy analyst. He is a professor at Columbia University, at which he was formerly director of The Earth Institute and currently director of the Center for Sustainable Development.

Quotes by Jeffrey D. Sachs

“The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.”

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Economics

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“Is there a way forward, when campaign financing and mega-lobbying have displaced the common good and have led Americans to despair about…

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Common good

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“Over the course of nearly a half-century, Cuba, Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Namibia, Mozambique, Chile, Afghanistan,…

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El salvador

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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…

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Power

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“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,…

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Federal government

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“The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an…

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Economics

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“Here is my recommendation for President Trump and the new Congress. Turn immediately to our glorious national institutions, the National Academies of…

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President trump

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“The current situation reminds me too much of the fable of the farmer whose chickens are dying. The local priest gives one…

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Current situation

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“Similarly, though the United States is one of the world’s richest economies by per capita income, it ranks only around seventeenth in…

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Costa rica

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“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.…

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American history

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“four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called…

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Democracy

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“This is an age of impunity, a time when the rich and powerful get away with their misdeeds, and are even lauded…

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Time

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“There is a major economic difference, however, between now and 1991, much less 1950. At the start of the Cold War in…

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Cold war

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“we may well look back at the 2016 election as the moment when the corruption and sheer incompetence of Washington became so…

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American people

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“With higher saving and investment rates, both public and private, directed towards productive capital, the United States could overcome secular stagnation.”

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Investing

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“Come Senators, Congressmen, Please heed the call, Don’t stand in the doorways, Don’t block up the halls…For the times they are a…

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Change

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