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

Mar 31, 2015

01:32:17

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To Move the World, JFK's Quest for Peace

02:19

What Do We Learn in Economics?

03:52

The Deep Engagement in Real Problems Is Crucial

02:13

Introduction

3min

The Natural Resource Curse

3min

Is This a Habit You Can Kick or Is It Path Dependence?

2min

Institutions Matter a Lot

2min

Is There a Better Measure of Institutional Quality?

5min

What Did Paul Rosenstein Rodan See?

5min

What Do You Think About Differential Diagnostics?

5min

Are You More of a Saxian Than I Am?

2min

To Move the World, JFK's Quest for Peace

2min

10.

The Cuban Missile Crisis

2min

11.

Climate Change - What Does a Solution Look Like?

3min

12.

What I've Learned From Harvard All-Nighters

4min

13.

What I Don't Understand Is How Weird It Was

4min

14.

Russia and China Faced a Financial Crisis

5min

15.

What Do You Think Are Underrated or Underrated?

2min

16.

Are You Persuaded by What They Say or Not?

2min

17.

Are You Worried About Premature Deindustrialization?

3min

18.

Is There a Supply of Jobs in Africa?

5min

19.

The Importance of the Environment in Agriculture

3min

20.

What's Your Favorite Novel?

3min

21.

Is My Real Estate Bubble a Lot of Provincial Debt?

2min

22.

What's Your Biggest Disagreement With Krugman?

5min

23.

The Rise of the Robots

2min

24.

What Do We Learn in Economics?

4min

25.

Economists Don't Study the Detail Out of That

2min

26.

The Implications of Robotics on Immigration

4min

27.

Is Artificial Intelligence a Good Thing?

4min

28.

Ex-M Bank and Export Subsidy

5min

29.

The Deep Engagement in Real Problems Is Crucial

2min

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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