Introduction

Jeffrey Sachs is an American economist academic public policy analyst and former director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He's known for his work on sustainable development and economic development and the fight to end poverty. I didn't want to talk to you today about the Ukraine because I've done so many shows on it that I think the listeners are going to get tired of it. Your take on the war is basically identical to mine but you wrote this very, very really useful synopsis that then you publish on your website and I tweeted.