Economists Doing Good...
John Cassidy
reviews Jeffrey Sachs' new book,
The End of Poverty, in this week's
New Yorker. Sachs is a fascinating character with good intentions, an enormous ego, a flair for publicity, and a decidedly mixed track record in international economics. That said, he's also trying to focus attention to the problem of poverty around the world, and agree or disagree with his proposals, how can you argue with that?
Sachs, by the way, was in the Harvard economics department until Larry Summers' return to the university. The two men have long been rivals, and the general consensus was that Harvard wasn't big enough for the two of them. So Sachs is now at Columbia....
