Jeffrey Sachs appears in the following:
Towards a New and Improved Economy
Wednesday, February 08, 2017
Taking on the Critics of the COP21 Agreement
Monday, December 21, 2015
And Now for the Hardest Part of the Paris Climate Talks: Implementation
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Predicting The End of Poverty
Tuesday, November 03, 2015
The Pope Takes on Climate Change
Friday, June 19, 2015
Sustainable Development 101
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Should We Declare 'War' on Inequality?
Wednesday, January 08, 2014
Jeffrey Sachs on JFK's Quest for Peace
Monday, June 10, 2013
Jeffrey Sachs highlights the foreign policy triumphs of John F. Kennedy’s presidency and the crusade for world peace that he focused on in office. The last great campaign of John F. Kennedy’s life was not the battle for reelection he did not live to wage, but the struggle for a sustainable peace with the Soviet Union. To Move the World: JFK’s Quest for Peace looks at October 1962 to September 1963, when JFK used his political skills to establish more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union and to slow down the proliferation of nuclear arms.
Please Explain: How to Save the World—World Peace
Friday, February 24, 2012
This week's Please Explain is the final installment of our series How to Save the World. Jeffrey Sachs discusses whether it's possible to achieve world peace. He's Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. His most recent book is The Price of Civilization.
Jeffrey Sachs on Occupy Wall Street Out of the Park
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Jeffrey Sachs, economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia, and author of The Price of Civilization, talks about the city clearing protesters from Zuccotti Park and what it means for the Occupy Wall Street movement. He wrote an op-ed about the movement's potential in Sunday’s New York Times.
Jeffrey Sachs on Moral Causes to America's Fiscal Problems
Friday, October 07, 2011
Economist Jeffrey Sachs has a new book, "The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity," and the heart of it is a single argument: all of the nation’s current economic, political and productive woes share a similar root cause: that America’s financial and political leaders are failing to take the moral steps necessary to restrain a society of markets, and policies run amok, and that we need to become a "mindful society."
Connecting Climate Change and Poverty
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Event: Jeffrey Sachs will take part in the global conference "State of the Planet: 2010" on Thursday, March 25. Register here.