Jeffrey D. Sachs's Blog, page 26

On Thomas Hartmann: (Republicans) Have Polluted Our Minds as Well as Our Air & Water

Trump passes the baton of technological leadership to China

At the core of a country’s global competitiveness is its ability to innovate. As economist Joseph Schumpeter observed in his classic “Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy,’’ capitalism is characterized by waves of “creative destruction,” in which advances in technology create new industries while destroying old ones. Yet President Trump is putting America’s capacity to innovate at [...]

Sustainable Development Goals and Global Economic Governance at UCL 2/21

Sustainable Development Goals and Global Economic Governance – Prof Jeffrey Sachs from Department of Political Science on Vimeo.

The Muslim ban and American history

Donald Trump’s revised executive order to bar entry to the United States from six Muslim-majority countries is the latest salvo in America’s epic culture wars over race and American identity. As a matter of national security and law, the policy makes no sense, as the US District Court for the District of Hawaii has made clear. Yet [...]

CNN Interview On Pruitt Climate Change Remarks

The ethics and practicalities of foreign aid

As a lifelong advocate for development aid for the world’s poor, I am angered by the reported plans of the Trump administration to slash US foreign aid. I know how many children will die or grow up without access to education if President Trump’s proposals are adopted. I know that the financial savings for the [...]

The high costs of abandoning international law

Even before Donald Trump put America first, the Republican Party had largely walked away from international treaty law. Now Trump’s “America First” is likely to mean a further denigration of international law and process, to the further detriment of America’s national security and long-term interests. Consider the following tale of our times. In 1973 the [...]

The Three Trumps

NEW YORK – Never in recent history has a change of leadership attracted as much attention and speculation as Donald Trump’s rise to the US presidency. What this change signifies and what it portends requires unraveling three mysteries, because there are three versions of Trump. The first Trump is the friend of Russian President Vladimir [...]

Is Wall Street Responsible For Our Economic Problems?

“When I met Jeffrey Sachs, an economist at Columbia University and the author of “The End of Poverty,” for coffee recently, he was stubbornly holding on to a sense of optimism in spite of a discouraging turn in world events. Sachs served as an adviser to Bernie Sanders during his Presidential campaign, and has published a new [...]

Democracy Now: On Trump’s Congressional Address