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12/26/2002
"Scientific American Journal"
Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs thinks the science and technology of resource-rich nations can abolish poverty, sickness and other woes of the developing world
His extensive travels have led him to realize the importance of geography, he informs me as we wait for his first appointment on a brilliant September morning.
"It isn't possible to do good economic development thinking without understanding the physical environment, deeply, in which economic development is supposed to take place," he says. He complains that this "physical framing" is hardly considered by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, nor is it taught to graduate students in economics.
As a result, "the physical scientists inherently feel that public policy somehow passes them by," Sachs remarks.
"They feel politicians neglect a lot of the important messages or don't understand the risks, say, of anthropogenic climate change or of biodiversity depletion." Yet he has often encountered a resistance among social scientists, who believe everything is at root a political problem.....more
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