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Jeffrey Sachs on What's Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy

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Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs

0:22.6

Magazine. Returning to the program today, we have Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for

0:30.8

Sustainable Development at Columbia University and one of the world's leading economist. Professor

0:36.3

Sachs, thank you for returning to join us here on

0:39.1

Current Affairs. Absolutely pleasure. Thank you. Now, the last time you came on, we talked about

0:44.2

where COVID came from. This time, I'd like to discuss U.S. foreign policy and how to achieve

0:49.7

a lasting, a global peace and avoid catastrophic war, something that you talk a lot about,

0:55.0

and I don't hear many other people talking about these days. But I want to start with a question

0:59.5

that a lot of people asked me last time why I hadn't asked you, because they were very curious.

1:05.5

This question, I'm a little curious about myself. A lot of my friends on the left

1:09.5

were some variation on, are you the same

1:13.0

Jeffrey Sachs? And what they meant by that

1:15.7

was for a long time they sort of associate

1:18.8

you or your early career with

1:21.6

the neoliberal establishment, they might call it.

1:25.2

They even might have read about you in one of Naomi

1:27.7

Klein's books. And now today they hear you as one of the leading most vociferous critics

1:34.2

of establishment economics of Washington foreign policy. And they want to know, how did you come

1:43.3

to move from within to without?

1:47.2

I assume there are, even if perhaps you don't accept the characterization that you have changed,

1:51.5

there are certainly invitations I bet you would have received that you no longer received.

1:56.1

And they wondered if you could tell us a bit more about your own development of your own personal views.

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