An Urgent Appeal for Peace in Ukraine Rob Johnson is President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, iNEP. They publish interviews on line and on June 6, 2022, Johnson spoke with Professor of Economics, Jeffrey Sachs, about Ukraine; the danger of nuclear war inherent in the current US/Russian confrontation (with reference to the 60th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis); and on US Exceptionalism.
Jeffrey Sachs is an American economist, academic, public policy analyst and former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor. Sachs is known as an expert on sustainable development, economic development, and the fight against poverty.
During the dissolution of the Soviet Union he was invited first by Soviet President Gorbachev and then by Russian President Yeltsin to advise on the transition from central planning to a market economy. From 2001 to 2018, he served as Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General. His books covered in this interview are: A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism; and To Move the World: JFK’s Quest for Peace.
DATE: June 6, 2022
CREDIT: Rob Johnson, Institute for New Economic Thinking, iNEP
Watch the conversation on the channel of iNEP under the title: Peace is the Result of Diplomacy, Never of War
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