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Writings on the Economic Crisis

 Articles by Jeffrey Sachs

Topic: Economic Crisis

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2011

"How America is strangling the state," Financial Times, 15 December 2011. [Download as PDF]

"Let's Save the Eurozone From Itself," Sunday Business Post, 12 November 2011.

"Two Parties, No Solutions to Jobs," Huffington Post, 16 September 2011. [Download as PDF]

"German hotheads are close to destroying the euro," Financial Times, 15 September 2011. [Download as PDF]

"German hotheads are close to destroying the euro," Financial Times, 15 September 2011.

"A Real Jobs Program," Huffington Post, 9 September 2011. [Download as PDF]

"CEO Follies," Huffington Post, 22 August 2011. [Download as PDF]

"Tripped up by globalisation." Financial Times. 18 August 2011. [Download as PDF]

"A bank tax can help Greece avoid default." Financial Times. 19 July 2011. [Download as PDF]

"Greece can be saved - here's how to do it." The Financial Times. 30 June 2011. [Download as PDF]

"A budget plan that puts people first." with Congressman Mike Honda. CNN. 23 May 2011. [Download as PDF]

"'Gang of Five'" Elite Deficit Talks Doing Disservice to Democracy," with Rep. Mike Honda, Huffington Post, 23 May 2011. [Download as PDF]

"The Global Economy’s Corporate Crime Wave," Project Syndicate, 30 April 2011.

"Fairness and Efficiency in Taxation." Huffington Post. 23 April 2011. [Download as PDF]

"The People's Budget." The Huffington Post. 8 April 2011

"Stop this race to the bottom on corporate tax." Financial Times. 28 March 2011 [Download as PDF]

"The Arab World's Agents of Change." International Herald Tribune. 28 March 2011. [Download as PDF]

2010

"America's Political Class Struggle," Huffington Post, 27 December 2010. [Download as PDF]

"In Search of Equilibrium." International Herald Tribune. 2 December 2010. [Download as PDF]

"America's Investment Crisis."  The Daily Beast. 7 October 2010. [Download as PDF]

"Moving Beyond Washington's Stale Economic Debate," Huffington Post, 30 August 2010. [Download as PDF]

"Sow the seeds of long-term growth." Financial Times, 21 July 2010.

"Time to plan for post-Keynsian era." Financial Times. 7 June 2010. [Download as PDF]

"A frugal policy is the better solution," with George Osborne. The Financial TImes. 14 March 2010. [Download as PDF]

"Rob rich bankers and give money to the poor." The Times. 10 March 2010.

"How to Tame the Budget Deficit," Huffington Post, 18 February 2010. [Download as PDF]

"How to Tame the Budget Deficit." Time Magazine. 4 February 2010.

2009

"Rethinking Macroeconomics." Capitalism and Society: Vol. 4 : Iss. 3, Article 3. [Download as PDF]

"America's Broken Politics." The Guardian. 23 November 2009. [Download as PDF]

"Obama has lost his way on jobs," Financial Times. 11 November 2009. [Download as PDF]

"American has passed on the baton." Financial Times. 29 September 2009.

"The G-20: bring on the peer pressure." Post-gazette.com. 25 September 2009. [Download as PDF]

"Bank Bonuses and the Reform Agenda in the Balance." Huffington Post. 6 August 2009. [Download as PDF]

"Paying for What Government Should Do." Scientific American. May 2009.

"Needed: A Fiscal Framework -- Not a Stimulus." Scientific American. April 2009. [Download as PDF]

"Homegrown Aid." The New York Times. 8 April 2009. [Download as PDF]

"The Geithner-Summers plan is worse than you think," with Laurence J. Kotlikoff. Financial Times. 6 April 2009. [Download as PDF]

"The Geithners-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than We Thought." Huffington Post. 6 April 2009. [Download as PDF]

"G20 Accomplishments Beyond Expectation." Huffington Post. 2 April 2009. [Download as PDF]

"The Economic Need for Stable Policies, Not a Stimulus." Scientific American. March 2009. [Download as PDF]

"Making Rich Guys Richer." Huffington Post. 29 March 2009.  [Download as PDF]

"Crisis with a Cure." Financial Times Health Supplement. 26 March 2009. [Download as PDF]

"Obama's bank plan could rob the taxpayer." Financial Times. 25 March 2009. [Download as PDF]

"Will Geithner and Summers try to raid the FDIC and Fed?" Huffington Post. 23 March 2009. [Download as PDF]

"Capitalism and Moral Sentiments." Huffington Post. 21 March 2009. [Download as PDF]

"3 billion poor people need world's help." CNN.com. 20 March 2009. [Download as PDF]

"Transforming the Auto Industry." Scientific American. February 2009. [Download as PDF]

"How to Bring Back the Big 3." Fortune. 17 February 2009. [Download as PDF]

"A Proposal on How to Clean Up the Banks." Huffington Post. 12 February 2009. [Download as PDF]

"5 Points on the Critical State of the Economy." Huffington Post. 9 February 2009. [Download as PDF]

"A strategy of contingent nationalisation." Financial Times. 5 February 2009.  [Download as PDF]

"Rewriting the rule book for 21st Century capitalism." The Guardian. 28 January 2009. [Download as PDF]

"The stimulus is a fiscal straitjacket." FT.com's The Economists' Forum. 27 January 2009. [Download as PDF]

"The Case for Bigger Government." Time Magazine. 8 January 2009. [Download as PDF]

2008

"Priorities for Fixing the Financial Crisis." Scientific American. December 2008.

"Monday Meltdown: How Lehman's Fall Created a Global Panic." Fortune. 15 December 2008. [Download as PDF]

Testimony to the Committee on Financial Services on "Stabilizing the Financial Condition of the American Automobile Industry." 19 November 2008.
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"A Bridge for the Carmakers." Washingfton Post. 17 November 2008.

"Elite Education, Advanced Research and Innovation - Europe and the US in the Face of Challenges from the 'New World'" 8th Haniel Lecture, Duisburg, Germany, November 13, 2008
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"Obama Needs Time to Rescue Economy." Irish Times. 11 November 2008. [Download as PDF]

"Work With the World: The US cannot go it alone if it is to get through the financial mess." The Guardian. 10 November 2008.

"Boom, Bust, and Recovery in the World Economy." Project Syndicate. October, 2008.

"Coping with a Persistent Oil Crisis." Scientific American. October 2008.

"The Best Recipe for Avoiding a Global Recession." Financial Times. 27 October 2008. [Download as PDF]

"Amid the rubble of global finance, a blueprint for Bretton Woods II." The Guardian. 21 October 2008. [Download as PDF]

"How to Rebuild America." Fortune. 14 October 2008. [Download as PDF]

"Puzzlement at banks' bail-out while aid commitments flounder." Financial Times. 23 September 2008. [Download as PDF]

"Stagflation is Back. Here's How to Beat It." Fortune. 9 June 2008.

2002

"Resolving the Debt Crisis of Low-Income Countries," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2002:1.
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1999

"Brazil Fever," in The Milken Institute Review, Second Quarter, 1999.
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"Global Financial Crisis: Lessons for Egypt", Conference- Growth Beyond Stabilization: Prospects for Egypt, Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, February 1999.
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"The Asian Financial Crisis: What Happened and What is to be Done," with Wing Thye Woo, Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 253, January 1999.
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1998

"The East Asian Financial Crisis: Diagnosis, Remedies, Prospects," with Steve Radelet, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 1998.
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"Toward a New Strategy for Asian Recovery," Singapore Straits-Times, 26 July 1998. [Download as PDF]

"Onset of the East Asian Financial Crisis," with Steven Radelet, presented at NBER Currency Crisis Conference and to US Agency for International Development, January 1998. 
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1997

"The IMF: A Power unto Itself," Financial Times, December 11, 1997

"International Monetary Failure? The IMF's prescriptions might actually make Asia's financial turmoil worse," Time, December 8, 1997.