Ebook: Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid
Author: Sachs Jeffrey, Wilson Japhy
- Tags: Sachs Jeffrey., Economists -- United States -- Biography., Neoliberalism -- Developing countries., Economic development -- Philosophy., Economic development -- Developing countries., Developing countries -- Economic conditions., Millenium Villages Project., Poverty -- Developing countries., Development economics., BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political., BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development., POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
- Series: Counterblasts
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Verso Books
- City: Developing countries, United States, Developing countries
- Language: English
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An investigation of Sachs’s schizophrenic career, and the worldwide havoc he has caused.
Jeffrey Sachs is a man with many faces. A celebrated economist and special advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, he is also no stranger to the world of celebrity, accompanying Bono, Madonna and Angelina Jolie on high-profile trips to Africa. Once notorious as the progenitor of a brutal form of free market engineering called ‘shock therapy’, Sachs now positions himself as a voice of progressivism, condemning the ‘1 per cent’ and promoting his solution to extreme poverty through the Millennium Villages Project.
Appearances can be deceiving. Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr Shock and Mr Aid is the story of an evangelical development expert who poses as saviour of the Third World while opening vulnerable nations to economic exploitation. Based on documentary research and on-the-ground investigation, Jeffrey Sachs exposes Mr Aid as no more than a new, more human face of Dr Shock.
Jeffrey Sachs is a man with many faces. A celebrated economist and special advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, he is also no stranger to the world of celebrity, accompanying Bono, Madonna and Angelina Jolie on high-profile trips to Africa. Once notorious as the progenitor of a brutal form of free market engineering called ‘shock therapy’, Sachs now positions himself as a voice of progressivism, condemning the ‘1 per cent’ and promoting his solution to extreme poverty through the Millennium Villages Project.
Appearances can be deceiving. Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr Shock and Mr Aid is the story of an evangelical development expert who poses as saviour of the Third World while opening vulnerable nations to economic exploitation. Based on documentary research and on-the-ground investigation, Jeffrey Sachs exposes Mr Aid as no more than a new, more human face of Dr Shock.
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