Jeffrey Sachs: Poland has gone very well. It's been a success. I'd say that things I recommended were, that was good advice I gave back then, and I'm proud of it. The basic idea was in the historical moment, and the basic idea was also solidarity movement's idea. Once you have an idea of that compelling focal point, then he said, okay, like the guy carving an elephant out of ice, take away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
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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