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Jeffrey Sachs on Charter Cities and How to Reform Graduate Economics Education (Live at Mason)

Conversations with Tyler

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The Natural Resource Curse

Jeffrey Sachs: Some of your best-sided work has been on the natural resource curse. The idea that economies, when they have natural resources such as oil, can harm their prospects for growth rather than helping them. How do you see this issue today, and do you think that has changed in any way since the first piece is you wrote? He says he would put more weight on the political economy aspects probably than the pure market-driven Dutch disease aspects which I talked about a quarter century ago.

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