Jeffrey D. Sachs

Quotes by Jeffrey D. Sachs

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Economist · American · 1954

American economist (born 1954)

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“The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.”

“They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports.”

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“The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.”
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
economics money politics poverty

“The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.”
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
economics future science sustainability

“History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
class condition human maldistribution

“We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.”
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
fairness humanity-and-society life sustainability

“Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.”
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
economics ethics sustainability

“They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports.”
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
developing-countries development economics

“world is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss.”
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
economics

“sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty”
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
developing-countries economics

“Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.”
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
developing-countries development economics

“reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them.”
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
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