I don't like training economists without them grappling with real problems in real places. It's the complexity of these interacting systems that defines how we need to respond. I want our students out on the hospital wards, as it were. Jeff has a new book out, The Age of Sustainable Development. He'll be doing signings outside at the reception.
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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