2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPlease Meet the World Famous Dr. Jeffrey Sachs (One of the Participants in Bernie's Conference)
Full Bio
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries. He is the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership. He has twice been named among Time Magazines 100 most influential world leaders. He was called by the New York Times, probably the most important economist in the world, and by Time Magazine the worlds best known economist. A recent survey by The Economist Magazine ranked Professor Sachs as among the worlds three most influential living economists of the past decade.
Professor Sachs serves as the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Sustainable Development Goals, and previously advised both UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. Sachs is Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network under the auspices of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Sachs is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and is director of the Millennium Villages Project. Sachs is also one of the Secretary-Generals MDG Advocates, and a Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Development. He has authored five books, including three New York Times bestsellers (*), in the past decade years: The End of Poverty (2005*), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008*), The Price of Civilization (2011*), To Move the World: JFKs Quest for Peace (2013) and The Age of Sustainable Development (2015).
Professor Sachs is widely considered to be one of the worlds leading experts on economic development, global macroeconomics, and the fight against poverty. His work on ending poverty, overcoming macroeconomic instability, promoting economic growth, fighting hunger and disease, and promoting sustainable environmental practices, has taken him to more than 125 countries with more than 90 percent of the worlds population. For more than thirty years he has advised dozens of heads of state and governments on economic strategy, in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He was among the outside advisors to Pope John Paul II on the encyclical Centesimus Annus and in recent years has worked closely with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on the issues of sustainable development.
Sachs works closely with many international organizations, including the African Union, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Food Programme, UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, among others.
Professor Sachs work has been pivotal in many of the key junctures of globalization during the past thirty years. In the 1980s he helped several Latin American countries including Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru to end hyperinflations and renegotiate their external debts. He was the leading academic advocate in the United States for reducing the debt overhang of the developing countries and his ideas were incorporated in the global debt-reduction plans undertaken from the mid-1980s onward, including the Brady Plan and the HIPC Program.
In 1989, Professor Sachs advised Polands anti-communist Solidarity movement and the first post-communist Government of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. He wrote the first-ever comprehensive plan for the transition from central planning to a market democracy, which became incorporated into Polands highly successful reform program led by Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz. Professor Sachs was the main architect of Polands successful debt reduction operation. The Government of Poland awarded Sachs with one of its highest honors in 1999, the Commanders Cross of the Order of Merit. He also received an honorary doctorate from the Cracow University of Economics.
Sachss ideas and methods of transition from central planning were successfully adopted throughout the transition economies. He helped Slovenia (1991) and Estonia (1992) to introduce new stable and convertible currencies. Based on Polands success, he was invited first by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and then by Russian President Boris Yeltsin on the transition to a market economy. He served as advisor to Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar and Finance Minister Boris Federov during 1991-93 on macroeconomic policies. He received the Leontief Medal of the Leontief Centre, St. Petersburg, for his contributions to Russias economic reforms.
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Named twice to Time magazines list of 100 most influential world leaders, Jeffrey Sachs is a leading voice for combining economic development with environmental sustainability. The best-selling author is director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and co-founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit aimed at ending extreme global poverty. He previously spent more than 20 years at Harvard, where he received three degrees and became one of the youngest tenured economics professors in the school's history. Sachs is a native of Detroit, Michigan.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/economist-jeffrey-sachs-3/
Professor Sachs serves as the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and is director of the Millennium Villages Project. Sachs is also one of the Secretary-Generals MDG Advocates, and a Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Development. He has authored three New York Times bestsellers in the past seven years: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011). ). His most recent book is To Move the World: JFKs Quest for Peace (2013).
Professor Sachs is widely considered to be one of the worlds leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty. His work on ending poverty, promoting economic growth, fighting hunger and disease, and promoting sustainable environmental practices, has taken him to more than 125 countries with more than 90 percent of the worlds population. For more than a quarter century he has advised dozens of heads of state and governments on economic strategy, in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
Sachs is the recipient of many awards and honors, including membership in the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Society of Fellows, and the Fellows of the World Econometric Society. He has received more than 20 honorary degrees, and many awards and honors around the world. Professor Sachs is also a frequent contributor to major publications such as the Financial Times of London, the International Herald Tribune, Scientific American, and Time magazine.
Prior to joining Columbia, Sachs spent over twenty years at Harvard University, most recently as Director of the Center for International Development and the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Sachs received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/
daleanime
(17,796 posts)And bookmarked.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Words of wisdom:
Hillary Is the Candidate of the War Machine
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Common Dreams, Feb. 5, 2016
There's no doubt that Hillary is the candidate of Wall Street. Even more dangerous, though, is that she is the candidate of the military-industrial complex. The idea that she is bad on the corporate issues but good on national security has it wrong. Her so-called foreign policy "experience" has been to support every war demanded by the US deep security state run by the military and the CIA.
Hillary and Bill Clinton's close relations with Wall Street helped to stoke two financial bubbles (1999-2000 and 2005-8) and the Great Recession that followed Lehman's collapse. In the 1990s they pushed financial deregulation for their campaign backers that in turn let loose the worst demons of financial manipulation, toxic assets, financial fraud, and eventually collapse. In the process they won elections and got mighty rich.
Yet Hillary's connections with the military-industrial complex are also alarming. It is often believed that the Republicans are the neocons and the Democrats act as restraints on the warmongering. This is not correct. Both parties are divided between neocon hawks and cautious realists who don't want the US in unending war. Hillary is a staunch neocon whose record of favoring American war adventures explains much of our current security danger.
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Hillary's record as Secretary of State is among the most militaristic, and disastrous, of modern US history. Some experience. Hilary was a staunch defender of the military-industrial-intelligence complex at every turn, helping to spread the Iraq mayhem over a swath of violence that now stretches from Mali to Afghanistan. Two disasters loom largest: Libya and Syria.
Hillary has been much attacked for the deaths of US diplomats in Benghazi, but her tireless promotion of the overthrow Muammar Qaddafi by NATO bombing is the far graver disaster. Hillary strongly promoted NATO-led regime change in Libya, not only in violation of international law but counter to the most basic good judgment. After the NATO bombing, Libya descended into civil war while the paramilitaries and unsecured arms stashes in Libya quickly spread west across the African Sahel and east to Syria. The Libyan disaster has spawned war in Mali, fed weapons to Boko Haram in Nigeria, and fueled ISIS in Syria and Iraq. In the meantime, Hillary found it hilarious to declare of Qaddafi: "We came, we saw, he died."
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http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/05/hillary-candidate-war-machine
Wars without end. Amen.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Nanjeanne
(4,974 posts)But thanks for playing.
amborin
(16,631 posts)Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)way to lasso it, cowboy.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)But, who the fuck knows.
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)forced him to write an invitation or he'd kill him'...Just like in a Godfather movie.
People are amazing sometimes.
Cognitive dissonance is not your friend.
CincyDem
(6,378 posts)So it appears that Bernie's going to be up there with a panel of lightweights.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Not easy, but recommended
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)He's too polite to call it a criminal enterprise but makes it clear what is going on.
mucifer
(23,558 posts)It probably is completely legal like so many terrible things are in the government. So it's not a criminal enterprise. But, it seems like it's horribly wrong.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)Foreign despots are stealing from their people by selling mineral rights and business contracts that exploit their citizens and getting huge kickbacks from the likes of the Lundin Group and Frank Giustra who have each contributed $100 million to the Clinton Foundation. Bill and Hillary know exactly what is going on. I believe the Clinton Foundation is basically an international clearinghouse for international corruption. Bill wanted to give a speech to the Republic of Congo, probably the biggest abuser of women on the planet, and have his picture taken with a couple of dictators for a $600,000 fee, but one of Hillary's aides at the State Department shut that down as too embarrassing. The aide wouldn't say why in writing because it would have been so embarrassing, she emailed that Hillary knew about the offer and Bill could call her if he had questions about why the State Department wouldn't allow it.
JudyM
(29,263 posts)Hillary in her capacity as SOS had input on what a private foundation was doing? If that's not blurring the line....
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)They had to tell Bill no when he wanted to do speeches in places like the Republic of Congo and North Korea for big money.
JudyM
(29,263 posts)decision making.
How ... curious.
amborin
(16,631 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)I don't know how it slipped under the radar. I noticed that in the OP on Sachs, for all of his linkages to international organizations on poverty and income inequality I never saw any mention of the Clinton Foundation, so I googled to see if had made any public comments on them. I found an article referencing Sachs' comments on Morning Joe and then went to YouTube and found the video. I will make it an OP so more people see it.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)nt
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)http://usuncut.com/politics/170-top-economists-back-bernie-sanders-plan-to-rein-in-wall-street/
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)There fixed it for you!
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Unless... ...maybe this conference is of some importance after all. There do seem to be several heads of state willing to travel to this as well...
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Bolivia. Both recently thwarted in their antidemocratic attempts to become "President for Life". I'm sure what they will add to the discussion will be fascinating.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University professor) Supports Occupy Wall Street
Uploaded on Oct 7, 2011
Watch Jeffrey Sachs, leading environmentalist and economist, and a respected Professor at Columbia University, speak out at the growing, inspiring Occupy Wall Street movement. Sachs is one of many professors, celebrities, community leaders, spiritual leaders and public figures who are speaking out in support of the OWS movement and what it stands for.
hill2016
(1,772 posts)how come nobody here has ever heard of him?
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)islandmkl
(5,275 posts)maybe you ought to ask yourself:
"What am I missing in my limited personal knowledge area concerning world-renowned economists, leaders in sustainable development, senior UN advisors, bestselling authors, and syndicated columnists whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries?
Would there be one who is the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership?
Has anyone twice been named among Time Magazines 100 most influential world leaders?
Has anyone been called by the New York Times, probably the most important economist in the world, and by Time Magazine the worlds best known economist.?
Has anyone been ranked in a recent survey by The Economist Magazine as among the worlds three most influential living economists of the past decade...and who would that be?"
at least WE all know now what you DO NOT KNOW now...
frylock
(34,825 posts)islandmkl
(5,275 posts)and make sure you latch it this time...
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)a Fridge magnet so you can see it every day
when you get your kool aide out of the fridge.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)Seems like the people you hang around with don't know much.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)like-minded leaders around the world.
Whether or not Bernie wins in November he will have formed a coalition of leaders that believe in economic justice and sustainable environmental practices to help him make changes here in the USA, and hopefully around the world.
Of course it would be so much easier if he is in the WH to work towards these changes.
BUT he can still work towards these goals in the Senate.
Not only will he have these leaders to back him up, he will have millions of Americans as well.
rachacha
(173 posts)a huge part of their value is just bringing people together to network and exchange ideas, outside of the official sessions. I'm sure some interesting, productive discussions will be had. So glad Bernie is taking this opportunity.
amborin
(16,631 posts)HillareeeHillaraah
(685 posts)That you don't think democrats have been busting ass to work toward those goals all along.
Bernie didn't invent empathy.
Sheesh...
TM99
(8,352 posts)is that so many supposedly 'empathic' Democrats are supporting a candidate who will be discussing with George Clooney how to win this election over a big bucks plate of food while Sanders is at the Vatican discussing with Dr. Sachs poverty and economic justice in the world.
Sheesh doesn't even begin to cover it.
HillareeeHillaraah
(685 posts)Leave Bernie land for a brief moment and take a look at some of the social justice work accomplished without and before Bernie...
Google: Clooney and his humanitarian work. His voice on Darfur and Syria.
And by the way, money raised from those dinners? Getting put right back into the economy. Spent on waiters and cooks and delivery people. Spent by campaigns in print shops and interns and people who make t shirts and clean hotel rooms and drive campaign buses. Working class people. I LOVE IT when rich people are spending their money right here in America. Why don't you?
And I say sheesh because cursing would be rude.
TM99
(8,352 posts)What we are attacking is the excessive wealth being used for quid pro quo power brokering.
I know all about Clooney. I also know what money will buy you as far as access.
And seriously, are you going to push that neoliberal (conservative) talking point about trickle down now with me on this board?
Yes, I am sure those waiters, cooks, and delivery people are being paid a living wage not having to worry about college education for their children or going bankrupt from excess medical expenses.
I will be rude, fuck that bullshit. Yet another Clinton supporter outs themselves as the neoliberal they truly are. Bravo!
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)but - you know - pearls to swine
jwirr
(39,215 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Please, people, get a grip. A Vatican academy is holding its annual conference. Bernie has expressed interest in attending a few times in past years, long before he was running for President.
This year, probably due to the convergence of the topic at hand and Bernie's lifelong platform, he's been invited.
But it's not Bernie's conference.
tralala
(239 posts)But if you want to call millions of people either starving to death or disappearing a "successful transition" that's your business I guess.
Anyway it looks like he got religion since then.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University professor who is presenting at the event, said in a phone interview that he helped the Vatican reach out to Bernie Sanders in March, and he doesnt know why Archer alleged that the Sanders campaign initiated the gig. The academy sent the invitation, its pure and simple, he said. A lot of people in the Vatican respect him a lot. He is speaking in the same kind of moral themes that Pope Francis, and the social teachings of the Church, promote, which is a moral economy. A representative who works with Sachs also passed along an official invitation from Sanchez Sorondo to Sanders dated on March 30. But even though the invite appeared to come from an official Church body, that doesnt mean it came from Pope Francis, and a spokesperson for the Vatican said it hasnt been confirmed whether the senator and the pontiff will have a sit-down in Rome.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/bernie-heads-to-the-vatican/477471/
Uncle Joe
(58,389 posts)Thanks for the thread, amborin.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)TM99
(8,352 posts)Sachs is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a professor of health policy and management at Columbia's School of Public Health. He is special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is co-founder and chief strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger. From 2002 to 2006, he was director of the United Nations Millennium Project's work on the Millennium Development Goals, eight internationally sanctioned objectives to reduce extreme poverty, hunger, and disease by the year 2015. He is director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Since 2010 he also served as a commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, which leverages broadband technologies as a key enabler for social and economic development.[3] Since 1995, he is also a member of the International Advisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE).
Sachs has authored three New York Times bestsellers: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011). His most recent book is The Age of Sustainable Development (2015). He was named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2004 and 2005, and was awarded the Blue Planet Prize in 2015 for his contributions to solving global environmental problems.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs
Y'all are really showing either the depths of depravity by lying about not knowing who Sachs is or y'all are frightfully uneducated and out of touch on substantive issues like the economics of poverty and world development.
You wonder why so many of us are scared of another Clinton presidency? This, right here is why, because y'all know more about George Clooney and Katy Perry than a world famous NYT's best selling economist.
amborin
(16,631 posts)ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)stop kissing someone's A--!
delrem
(9,688 posts)His bi-weekly anti-Sanders pro-Clinton screeds are bizarrely out of his field, and he uses David Brock's talking points to pontificate about non-issues. About ephemera.
It's like someone shot him with the same dumb-gun that shot Capehart and others.
and hopefully more are starting to see the reality of these people.
Krugman is not an icon of progressive economics, and he never was. His doctorate, books, and Nobel prize are on free trade. Free trade! He is just another neoliberal economist. He just happens to support LGBT civil rights and a women's right to an abortion.
delrem
(9,688 posts)Because I'm unable to take it all in one go, live.
I keep stopping to think and by then the event has moved on. So I take it in chunks.
Jeez, that event is all about what politics means to me.