Jeffrey Sachs

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Jeff Sachs an American economist, academic, public policy analyst and former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor. He is known as one of the world's leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty. Jeff chats with the Armchair Expert about his career in international economics, what he's learned from advising other countries and his propensity to model Scandinavia's middle way economic model. Dax asks about communism in theory vs. in practice and Jeff implores us to take care of one another. The two talk about how the history of WWI has led to today and Jeff describes ways in which we couldn't have a more balanced economy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert, experts on experts.
0:04.0	I'm Dan Shepard.
0:05.0	Hi Dan.
0:06.0	I just mispronounce the name of our own thing.
0:08.0	I said experts on experts.
0:11.0	That's okay. We're not perfect. We're not perfect. We're far from it. You know who is perfect? Jeff Sachs.
0:16.7	Boy oh boy is this guy fascinating. He was one of these folks that afterwards Monica and I were like,
0:22.2	is he the smartest person we've ever talked to?
0:24.6	And also his resume was like 45 pages long.
0:27.8	Couldn't be read, to be honest.
0:29.1	Yeah, just at the end, we're like,
0:30.1	what a comprehensive view of everything history, the economy, everything.
0:35.8	And he made us kind of rethink some things.
0:39.0	Yeah, he's got us on the ropes a little bit.
0:40.4	That we had thought we were permanent staples on. Yeah, we haven't made any big. a is an American economist, a liberal and academic, a public policy analyst and former director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University,
0:58.0	where he holds the title of University Professor.
1:00.0	He is known as one of the world's leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty.
1:05.8	He has written many books, A New Foreign Policy, Building the New American Economy, The Age of Sustainable Development, and his new book, The Ages of Globalization,
1:15.6	Geography, Technology, and Institutions gives you a full comprehensive view of all this stuff.
1:21.6	So please check out his book and please enjoy Jeff
1:24.4	Sachs.
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