Jeffrey Sachs

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jeffrey Sachs
Occupation	Teacher
Date Of Birth	Nov 5, 1954(1954-11-05)
Age	70
Birthplace	Michigan
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Scorpio

Jeffrey Sachs Biography

Jeffrey Sachs is one of the most popular and richest Teacher who was born on November 5, 1954 in Michigan, Michigan, United States. An economics expert and Columbia University professor, he authored three New York Times bestselling books. His popular works include The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011).

He and Nelson Mandela were both included on Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People list.

Sachs was raised in Oak Park, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, the son of Joan (née Abrams) and Theodore Sachs, a labor lawyer.His family is Jewish. He graduated from Oak Park High School and attended Harvard College, where he received his bachelor of arts summa cum laude in 1976. He went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard with his thesis titled Factor Costs and Macroeconomic Adjustment in the Open Economy: Theory and Evidence and was invited to join the Harvard Society of Fellows while still a Harvard graduate student.

In 1980, Sachs joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 1982. A year later at the age of 28, he became a professor of economics with tenure at Harvard.

He was born in Michigan to Joan Abrams Sachs and attorney Theodore Sachs. With his wife, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, he had three children: Lisa, Adam, and Hannah.

Jeffrey Sachs Net Worth

Jeffrey Sachs is one of the richest Teacher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jeffrey Sachs 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He received both his undergraduate degree and his Ph.D. from Harvard and became a professor of economics at the university at the young age of twenty- eight. He later became the director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

He was twice named to Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World list.

Jeffrey David Sachs (/s æ k s / ; born November 5, 1954) is an American economist, liberal, academic, public policy analyst and former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor. He is known as one of the world’s leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty.

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During the next 19 years at Harvard, Sachs became the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development at the Kennedy School of Government (1995–1999) and director of the Center for International Development (1999–2002).

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From 2000 to 2001, Sachs was chairman of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health of the World Health Organization (WHO) and from 1999 to 2000 he served as a member of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission established by the United States Congress. Sachs has been an adviser to the WHO, the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations Development Program. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Society of Fellows, the Fellows of the World Econometric Society, the Brookings Panel of Economists, the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Board of Advisers of the Chinese Economists Society, among other international organizations. Sachs is also the first holder of the Royal Professor Ungku Aziz Chair in Poverty Studies at the Centre for Poverty and Development Studies at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for 2007–2009. He holds an honorary professorship at the Universidad del Pacifico in Peru. He has lectured at the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford and Yale University and in Tel Aviv and Jakarta.

What is Jeffrey Sachs known for?

Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries.

What does Jeffrey Sachs argue?

Sachs argues that injections of aid are needed to break the poverty trap –because there is no where else money is going to come from when there is insufficient income to tax or save.

What kind of economist is Jeffrey Sachs?

Jeffrey Sachs
Born| November 5, 1954 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Institution| Columbia University
Field| Political economics International Development
School or tradition| Keynesian economics

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How many books has Jeffrey Sachs written?

Books