Video: Global Capitalism with Jeffrey Sachs and Matthew Bishop
March 10, 2009
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I’m an avid reader of Jeffery Sachs. I especially enjoyed his book, The End Of Poverty. Here’s his latest talk…..
Introduction To Video (Via Fora.Tv)
Janera hosts a discussion on new forms of capitalism with Jeffrey Sachs, the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of The End of Poverty, and Matthew Bishop, the New York Bureau Chief of The Economist and co-author of Philanthrocapitalism
About The Speakers – Via (Fora.Tv)
Matthew Bishop – Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World, Bishop’s new book (with Michael Green) on the global boom now under way in philanthropy, has just been published. He is also the author of Essential Economics, the official Economist layperson’s guide to economics. Before joining The Economist, Bishop was on the faculty of London Business School, where he co-authored three books for Oxford University Press. He has served as a member of the Sykes Commission on the investment system in the 21st Century. Bishop was also on the Advisors Group of the United Nations International Year of Microcredit 2005. The World Economic Forum has honored him as a Young Global Leader. Bishop is a graduate of Oxford University.
Jeffrey Sachs – Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He also is the author of Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. Originally one of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became renowned for implementing economic shock therapy throughout the developing world, and subsequently for his work on the challenges of economic development, environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation, debt cancellation, and globalization. Sachs lives in New York City with his wife Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, a pediatrician. They have three children.
