Jeffrey Sachs
Affiliation
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Economics
School of International and Public Affairs
Earth Institute at Columbia University
Research
Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute and Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was formerly Director of the Center for International Development (CID) and Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), and the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University. In January 2002 Professor Sachs was appointed by Secretary General Kofi Annan as his Special Advisor on the Millennium Development Goals. Sachs serves as an economic advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa.
Sachs' research interests include the links of health and development, economic geography, globalization, transition to market economies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, international financial markets, international macroeconomic policy coordination, emerging markets, economic development and growth, global competitiveness, and macroeconomic policies in developing and developed countries. He is now directing a major research program on global public health and economic development as Chairman of the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health.
Sachs has published more than two hundred scholarly articles, and has authored or edited many books. His NBER volume, Economics of Worldwide Stagflation, co-authored with Michael Bruno, was published in 1985, and his books Global Linkages: Macroeconomic Interdependence and Cooperation in the World Economy, co-authored with Warwick McKibbin, and Peru's Path to Recovery, co-authored with Carlos Paredes, were published by The Brookings Institution in 1991
Selected Work
- End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.
- Asian Financial Crisis: Lessons for a Risilient Asia. Eds. Wing Thye Woo, Jeffery Sachs, and Klaus Schwab. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
- `Collapse of the Mexican Peso: What have we Learned? by Jeffery Sachs, Aaron Tornell, and Andres Velasco. Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1995.
- `Poland's Jump to the Market Economy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.
See Also
- Featured publication: The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
