Jeffrey Sachs

Columbia University

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Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special advisor to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; author of The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity

Jeffrey Sachs on KCRW

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