Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Jeffrey D. Sachs — Our Dangerous Budget and What to Do About It


Another case of Jeffrey Sachs meaning well and going off the deep-end of deficit hysteria. Someone needs to fisk this piece to set him straight before he causes any more disasters.

The New York Review of Books
Our Dangerous Budget and What to Do About It
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's School of Public Health. He is Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger.

3 comments:

Roger Erickson said...

Seems too late. He's got too much at stake to back off an inch before his tombstone.

Save the USA? He can't. That would destroy HIM! (Or at least his former self.)

Decisions, decisions.

Apparently, he's not into being reborn, in any dimensions whatsoever.

Unknown said...

I sent the man an email with an explanation as to why the most egregious parts are wrong. Not that he'll ever see it. No idea why I spent 74 minutes doing that.

Dan Lynch said...

Milt Friedman had good intentions, too. Just sayin'