Jeffrey Sachs, "The Future of Globalization"

"The Future of Globalization"
Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
Date: December 10, 2007
Course number: U6800
Course title: Conceptual Foundations of International Politics
School: School of International and Public Affairs

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• columbiauniversity
• sipa
• politics

[helinterry]

Thank you the video. Very insightful and optimistic.

[mycatisromeo]

Kleptocracy/Corporatocracy, followed by revolution, followed by collapse, followed by natural selection. See how nature comes back around?

[muhammadzahmad]

this was really a great idea...

[thegreeensky]

hope poverty would really be stopped...

[peacock427]

please, whoever you are, watch david wilcock's Source Field Investigations, especially all you medical professionals. There is all the data you need to realize the future is not anything like what is presently in your scope of vision.

[gogomaty]

Looking at the so-called defense budget and hearing how much Wallstreet guys get paid for christmas bonus, I can understand Prof. Sachs' frustration at the end of his talk. I am not a US-national. So I can't tell you guys what to do with your money. But I have to say I am rooting for you Prof. Jeff Sachs.

[qwertypoiu4321]

@iamFegor Yes. Have you listed to Moyo or Easterly?

[iamFegor]

@qwertypoiu4321 did you listen to this video?

[qwertypoiu4321]

@iamFegor Trade is not free at all, $568 billion to Africa has done nothing but prop up dictators whom are now more accountable to aid donors than the people they rule. Divided labor through trade would allow industrialization to lift people out of poverty as thorough and quickly as humanly possible.

Read Moyo and Easterly, not propagandists such as Sachs promoting coercive and counterproductive 'policy' crimes.

[iamFegor]

@qwertypoiu4321 1:15:00 on he argues at the end of the video that it wouldn't. He says that trade is already free enough. He was talking about Africa, He said that they can't compete, not because of subsidies in Europe and US, but because of lack of infrastructure and he talked about a road that is so poor it raises transport costs to uneconomical levels.

[qwertypoiu4321]

Free Trade!!! It would end all poverty!!!

[estorpai]

The rise of China is good for all except Western countries. China will liberate Africa from the hands of draculas,vampires,blood hounds and hypocrites.

Good riddance USA and the status quo. Re introduce HIV to check the population.These evil people

[xdeliriumx1]

If powerful nations wanted poverty to end they could, but the political will and interest just isn't there. It is probably better for them to keep countries in poverty to exploit them.

[xdeliriumx1]

what?

[sustaincain]

1:39:30 "Its amazing we can't get this done. It is just the wierdest thing. I don't know what they put in the water supply in Washington. But truly this makes no sense from a national security point of view, a foreign policy point of view, a public health point of view."

Course it does Jeffrey, and you know it does, you just explained it to us: TOO MANY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE BREEDING LIKE A TERMINAL VIRUS!

[sustaincain]

1:37ish Pentagon spends $1.1M per minute. 2 days would pay for a year of maleria control across the whole of Africa, 3 million bed-nets for 5 years would be one day's spending. President's Maleria budged 2007 about a 15th of two days Pentagon ($3.1B).

[sumo7274]

i agree

[tonylee1973]

i THINK THIS GUY IS A FROUD. i THINK HE WORKER FOR THE OLIGARCHS, THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT BANKS. MANY LEFTIES (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF NAOMI KLIEN) MAY NOT SEE THROUGH YOUR PHONINESS BUT LIBERTARIANS DO. DON'T TREAD ON ME PUNK.