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NEWS ABOUT: Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs stories: 2 news summaries

 Soros to Spend 
 $50M to Reinvent 
 Economics 


Fund manager's think tank charged with reinventing the field

Oct 28, 09 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - George Soros has decided to spend $50 million to launch a new think tank charged with reinventing the field of economics, which the Hungarian-American billionaire calls "a dogma whose time has passed." The Institute of New Economic Thinking, whose board members include luminaries such as Joseph Stiglitz and... More »

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economics • Alan Greenspan • George Soros • laissez faire economics • Joseph Stiglitz • financial crisis • Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs

 Coal Harms the Planet 
 —and Owns the Senate 

Blame industry as well as ideology if US shirks Copenhagen

Oct 21, 09 8:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the world turns to Copenhagen this December, the US, which never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, may once again fail to sign up to save the world from serious climate change. Ideology plays a part, Jeffrey Sachs notes, as many Republican senators are "intent on derailing any Obama initiative.... More »

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climate change • Barack Obama • environment • coal • Kyoto Protocol • coal mining • treaty • Copenhagen climate change conference • Jeffrey Sachs

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