Jeffrey Sachs: Economic Ethics for the 21st Century

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Speaker's Bio
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, 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 books are The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020) and Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022).
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  • @teresabarrett8676
    @teresabarrett867610 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much Dr. Sachs.

  • @sdsa007
    @sdsa007 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful thoughts! The beginning of a new beginning, and more questions await, for those hungry for a new kind of hope!

  • @guestonearth1274
    @guestonearth1274 Жыл бұрын

    Great interview! Huge respect for Prof Sachs who always speaks the truth and upholds justice for all!

  • @matrix-qp2tp
    @matrix-qp2tp Жыл бұрын

    Always learn a lot listening to professor Sachs!

  • @annexiwang6562
    @annexiwang6562 Жыл бұрын

    Prof Jeffrey Sachs puts the complicated world problems and solutions in a simple way which I hope politicians can understand. Indeed peace is necessary for all to achieve sustainable development.

  • @Mr---mr4ll
    @Mr---mr4ll Жыл бұрын

    Man Jeffrey sachs has been all over the internet recently… really glad to see him speak to so many people…

  • @guestonearth1274
    @guestonearth1274 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Prof Jeffery, a most lucid observation and opinion. I wonder when the best of Mankind can get down to rejecting this continuing game of snakes and ladders. Some have described us as a recalcitrant race, haha. Yet, what is there if we do not have hope. . . I think your advice and suggestion demands consideration and attention from the entire leadership of the world. All have a role to play, but it is clear, no one can move forward without all moving in harmony together. Thank you once again!

  • @guestonearth1274
    @guestonearth1274 Жыл бұрын

    Noble person Jeffrey Sachs

  • @guestonearth1274
    @guestonearth1274 Жыл бұрын

    I'm at home in Hawaii and I'm clapping and cheering for Dr. Sachs! Woot woot!!!

  • @guestonearth1274
    @guestonearth1274 Жыл бұрын

    professor Sachs!

  • @sheevamatimbas4300
    @sheevamatimbas4300 Жыл бұрын

    I don't think under the British it was Laissez-faire, more Mercantilism Otherwise excellent podcast with Jeffrey Sachs👍💯

  • @treefrog3349
    @treefrog3349 Жыл бұрын

    The true irony to me as that homo sapiens are unable to recognize the simple fact that we are all - all 8 billion of us - residents of the same place! Another disturbing irony is that we are collectively sucking the very "life-blood" out of the ONLY habitat that we have, yet we seem unable to willfully do anything definitive about our own depredation! A cursory overview of human history from ancient times to the present moment leads me, sadly, to wonder if homo sapiens might just be a slightly more intelligent form of a pernicious invasive species intent on devouring everything in sight until there is no more? Bleak, I readily admit. But if you seriously, objectively compare what we MIGHT be doing to what we actually ARE doing, the conclusions are very stark.

  • @blogintonblakley2708
    @blogintonblakley2708 Жыл бұрын

    How can you have ethics and profit at the same time?

  • @anirudhhattangadi3534

    @anirudhhattangadi3534

    4 ай бұрын

    You can within certain limits atleast. While not unlimited profits

  • @laurenth7187
    @laurenth7187 Жыл бұрын

    Ethic and economic are antinomic. If you didn't understand that, then you are still in the age of dreams.

  • @lettucesalad3560
    @lettucesalad3560 Жыл бұрын

    Jeffrey Sachs never discloses that he frequently works for the Chinese government when he posts his anti-US rants - I can't take anything he says about ethics seriously since he doesn't follow basic ethics himself.

  • @megthornton1371

    @megthornton1371

    Жыл бұрын

    It is obvious what the Americans are doing

  • @treefrog3349

    @treefrog3349

    Жыл бұрын

    you truly are vegetable

  • @lettucesalad3560

    @lettucesalad3560

    Жыл бұрын

    @@megthornton1371 So you don't think "experts" on KZread should disclose conflicts of interests?

  • @jamshedsethna3428

    @jamshedsethna3428

    Жыл бұрын

    What country has done more than any other than China lifting millions out of poverty. Which country has invaded dozens of countries causing millions of deaths of women and children ?

  • @lettucesalad3560

    @lettucesalad3560

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jamshedsethna3428 Who fought wars against USSR, Korea, Tibet, Xinjiang/East Turkestan, Burma, Taiwan, India, Vietnam, with Japan? CCP has killed more people than any other government or country IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, and in only 70 years! That's 60 million people, and if you add the COVID19 deaths they're also responsible for, that's over 70 million now. China didn't eliminate poverty, all it did was re-define poverty so that half their population doesn't qualify, but with the higher cost of living in China, half the population is still dirt poor, so it has accomplished nothing.