Jeffrey D. Sachs

Quotes

• “Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth ...”
• “The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazin...”
• “reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlyi...”
• “Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate prof...”
• “We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.”
• “History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
• “sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty”