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The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
By Nina Munk
‘The Not-So-Great Professor: Jeffrey Sachs' Incredible Failure to Eradicate Poverty in Africa’*
By Howard W. French
‘Jeffrey Sachs was certain he knew how to rid the world of poverty. He even said it would be easy. The world had other ideas.’
The early sections of Nina Munk’s book about the economist Jeffrey Sachs read like a celebration of a boy genius. No, strike that: Sachs piles up so many achievements so quickly that the word genius sounds somehow inadequate.
By the age of 13, he was taking college math. Later, he got near-perfect scores on his SATs and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, where by 28 he was a tenured professor. Two years later, he was advising the Bolivian government on how to administer economic “shock therapy,” designed to break the spell of hyperinflation. This led to an even bigger triumph: masterminding Poland’s transition to a market economy in 1989, as communism collapsed in Eastern Europe.
Today, though, Sachs is best known for his obsession with the noble idea of ending global poverty “once and for all.” In his 2005 best seller, The End of Poverty, he argued that with proper planning and funding, extreme poverty could be wiped off the Earth by 2025.
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