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Could New Nuclear Reactors Power America’s Low-Carbon Future?

“The moonshot wasn’t a miracle, it was just rigorous engineering,” says Jeffrey Sachs, an economist at Columbia’s Center for Sustainable development, in a new documentary. “On climate, we haven’t gotten organized to do a moonshot.” Read more here.

Charting Asia’s Transformation To Sustainable Development

Influential economist Professor Jeffrey Sachs speaks at Singapore Management University, delivering the 32nd lecture in SMU’s Presidential Distinguished Lecturer Series (PDLS) on November 1, 2017. Read more here.

This Week in Economics with Professor Jeffrey Sachs: Episode 16

Big Data and Big Money have subverted our democracy

In American politics today, corporations reign supreme. Powerful corporations control American politics through Big Money and Big Data. Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress represent the ultimate corporate play, with the powers of the executive and legislative branches turned over to the most destructive corporate special interests.  Read more in The Boston Globe.

The US Plutocracy’s War on Sustainable Development

Billionaire US plutocrats such as Charles and David Koch, Robert Mercer, and Sheldon Adelson have long played their politics for personal financial gain – even if it means boosting inequality at home and blocking sustainable development worldwide. To stop them, US citizens will need to regain the upper hand in electoral politics. Read more at [...]

Charting Asia’s Transformation to Sustainable Development: Lecture and Q&A

The ominous absurdity of Trump’s tax cuts

(CNN) Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s call forcorporate tax cuts is akin to his request for a government plane for his honeymoon: both are adventures in avarice. Donald Trump, Mnuchin, Gary Cohn, and the key billionaire funders of the Republican Party (including the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, and Robert Mercer) would each reap a fortune from the proposed tax cuts. They are out [...]

Corporate Responsibility and Malfeasance

Jeffrey Sachs shows how we can raise the resources needed to eradicate poverty and to avert catastrophic climate change, speaking at the 2017 Yale Global Justice Conference. Watch the full video here.

Professor Jeffrey Sachs Discusses ISDS in Trade Agreements

Trade experts and constitutional scholars from the left and the right who battle over most issues – including the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – joined together at the National Press Club to support the elimination of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) from NAFTA. Jeffrey Sachs, prominent professor of economics at Columbia University and United [...]

Corporate tax cut propaganda

The White House is selling a tax cut designed for the rich as a boost for the working class. Cut taxes on capital, the White House claims, and investors will raise investment, hire more workers, and bid up wages — a.k.a. trickle-down economics. If the real goal is to use tax cuts to boost low [...]