"I tend to believe there's a way out of a crisis," he says. "The more clarity, the more evidence, the more appropriate an analysis, the more likely we can find a good outcome." He is sometimes accused of being gullible or too soft in the face of whatever. The interview airs tonight at 10 p.m. ET on CNN.
Tyler Cowen and Jeffrey Sachs discuss the resource curse, why Russia failed and Poland succeeded, charter cities, Sach's China optimism, JFK, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, whether Africa will be able to overcome the middle income trap, Paul Krugman, Sach's favorite novel, premature deindustrialization, and how to reform graduate economics education.
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