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Mentions on MR
A new foreign policy
What I’ve been reading (2018-09-26)

4. Jeffrey D. Sachs, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism .  This book is somewhat less radical than I had been expecting, mostly concentrating on the potential gains from multilateralism, international cooperation, and international law.  Or is that the truly radical view?

Building the new American economy
What I’ve been reading (2016-12-24)

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable , foreword by Bernie Sanders.

To move the world
Assorted links (2013-04-01)

2. The new Jeff Sachs book is due out in June and appears to cover JFK and foreign policy .

The price of civilization
*The Price of Civilization* (2011-11-02)

That is the new Jeffrey Sachs book, with the subtitle Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity .  Here is one excerpt:

Common Wealth
Jeff Sachs on water policy (2008-03-26)

Chapter five of Common Wealth is called "Securing Our Water Needs," an important topic but one neglected by most economists.  One lesson is that climate change will put a big stress on water supplies.  So far, so good, but the recommendations start with greater international cooperation:

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008-03-17)

That’s the new Jeff Sachs book .  It promotes resource pessimism, Nordic-style social democracy, foreign aid, and a fundamental rethinking of U.S. foreign policy.  Most of all it expresses a faith in global cooperation.  Sachs is very smart and, though I do not agree with him, there is often more to his views than his critics admit.  But my browsing of this book never gave me the feeling that I had access to the mind of Jeffrey Sachs.  It doesn’t even read like a popularization.  Imagine a smart...

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