Jeffrey D. Sachs Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

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#3. sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty

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#4. We have entered a new era. Global society is interconnected as never before. [...] I suggest that we have arrived in the Age of Sustainable Development.

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#5. The current situation reminds me too much of the fable of the
farmer whose chickens are dying. The local priest gives one remedy af-
ter another - prayers, potions, oaths - until all of the chickens are dead.
"Too bad," says the priest, "I had so many other good ideas.

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#6. is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights - the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation - the right to breathe air as nature provided it - the right of future generations to a healthy existence?10 Kennedy

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#7. There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us from doing so.

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#8. our common humanity made it possible to find common cause in the midst of competition and that peace depended on our own virtue and ethical behavior.

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#9. 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.

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#10. We need the rich today to do their modest part to enable all of society to share in prosperity. By passing that hurdle, we would reduce the need for long-term transfers from rich to poor in the future. The

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#11. Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.

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#12. History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

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

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#14. Basic survival goods are cheap, whereas narcissistic self-stimulation and social-display products are expensive. Living doesn't cost much, but showing off does.3 For

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#15. Our greatest national illusion is that a healthy society can be organized around the single-minded pursuit of wealth.

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#16. reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them.

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#17. It is easy to lose sight of the ultimate purpose of economic policy: the life satisfaction of the population. That ultimate goal should be unassailable for a country founded precisely to defend the inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness.

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#18. the United States will need substantially more revenues to close the budget deficit, especially recognizing the need to increase federal spending in certain critical areas. I

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

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#20. world is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss.

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#21. We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

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