The Price of Civilization_ Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity - Jeffrey D. Sachs [139]
combining the scholarly excellence of cutting-edge economic science and the frontline problem solving of an emergency-room money doctor. His successful treatments of economic ills include the end of hyperinflations in Latin America and Eastern Europe, breakthrough strategies to resolve the debt crises of poor countries, the economic transition from communism to capitalism in Poland and other post-communist countries, the introduction of new national currencies in several crisis-ridden economies, the financing and scale-up of disease control in Africa, and the escape from extreme poverty in some of the world’s most difficult settings. He has been a high-level adviser to dozens of governments around the world, including Bolivia, Brazil, China, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, and countless other emerging economies. He currently directs the Earth Institute at Columbia University and serves as special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals.
Sachs now turns his powerful methods of clinical economics to America’s economic crisis. He brings unprecedented knowledge, experience, and firsthand engagement to the challenge. Throughout his career, Sachs has consulted with presidents, Treasury secretaries, senior White House officials, senators and House members, Federal Reserve Board members, and lead economists throughout the U.S. government and state governments. Many top officials are his former students or academic colleagues.
Sachs’s message is clear: there are solutions for America’s economic ills, but implementing them will require America to recommit to our core civic virtues and to the deep reform of America’s political and economic institutions.