Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Chair of the Lancet COVID19 Commission, Co-Chair of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, and Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University. He has been Special Advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary General António Guterres. He spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, where he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. Sachs has received 41 honorary doctorates, and his recent awards include the 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development, the Legion of Honor by decree of the President of the Republic of France, and the Order of the Cross from the President of Estonia. His most recent book is The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020). View his full CV at https://tinyurl.com/2p8ntes8.

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Relevant Links:

Sachs' website + books: https://www.jeffsachs.org/

Sach's mailing list: https://tinyurl.com/2zvmve5b

Europe's Green Deal: https://tinyurl.com/y9ed8s4m

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00:00 -- Intro sequence / request for support

00:27 -- Post-Interview comments and intro by Razo

04:18 -- Preliminary comments by Razo about management

05:47 -- How does Sachs respond to critics of his work?

09:00 -- Sachs on the proxy war between the US and Russia

12:00 -- The Cuban missile crisis

13:30 -- Sachs: US ideology (not economics) is driving the war

14:15 -- U.S. genocide of indigenous Americans

15:00 -- U.S. war against Spain and overseas expansion

15:35 -- American state elite after WWII / USSR, Iraq, Syria, Libya

17:20 -- The psychological need to expand NATO

18:15 -- The military industrial complex not really a factor

18:50 -- U.S. confrontation with China over Taiwan

20:10 -- Sachs on electing leaders, social choice theory, and virtue

22:40 -- How British thinking affects modern economics and politics

23:40 -- Kenneth Arrow's Impossibility theorem

24:00 -- Aristotle's Politics, Ethics, and Catholic Social Teaching

27:02 -- Sachs about Europe's approach to sustainable development

29:20 -- Sachs' recommendation for EU citizens

30:40 -- How and where to follow Sachs online