John Asker, Evan D. Sadler and Tamrat W. Gashaw will join the Department of Economics this fall. John has been appointed Professor of Economics, Evan is Assistant Professor, and Tamrat, Lecturer in Discipline.
The idea of sustainable development is that every nation (and local community) should aim for a triple bottom line: economic prosperity, social justice and environmental sustainability. However, many of our politicians have never warmed to the idea. … Jeffrey Sachs is a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable
Nobel prize-winning economist and Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz is among those critics. Although the ledger of transactions that has taken place on the blockchain is public, Stiglitz says the anonymity of bitcoin opens the door for criminal enterprises. "You cannot have a means of payment that is based on
A well-known professor said Monday at a UN high-level meeting that the biggest obstacle to achieving fair societies is greed. Jeffrey D. Sachs, professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, said that the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are "This generation's only hope for creating
In France, if things aren't going well for your business, you can't just close up shop and cut loose your workers — you actually have to prove that you can't afford to stay open. It's a system designed to protect workers, but it also has consequences for the rest of
Some of the most fiery rhetoric came from Columbia University Earth Institute director Jeffrey Sachs, who spoke to the group in Greece before departing for the Vatican to participate in the papal climate conference. In an impassioned speech, Sachs charted the historic development of the global capitalist economy, arguing that
The Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday approved President Donald Trump's nomination of Columbia University Professor Richard Clarida to be the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve. The panel also approved the nomination of Kansas bank commissioner Michelle Bowman to fill another vacancy on the Fed's seven-member board.
Among the Vatican’s “reception committee” for the oil bosses will be Jeffrey Sachs, an American development economist and anti-poverty campaigner. Also a professor at Columbia University and director of its Earth Institute, he has worked closely with the Vatican and other Christian confessions to help them formulate policies on climate
Maybe Donald Trump really is the Manchurian Candidate, a stooge of some foreign potentate. Much more likely, Trump is just mentally unstable and narcissistic. Whichever it is, Trump is rapidly destroying American global leadership, alliances, and interests. Wednesday's announcement of new tariffs on steel and aluminum exports from Canada, Mexico,
The Department of Economics announced that David E. Weinstein had been appointed Executive Director of the Program for Economic Research (PER), succeeding Yeon-Koo Che, who served in the role for the past three years.
