Conversation with Peter Lindert, Making Social Spending Work

Jeffrey Sachs and Peter H. Lindert discuss Prof. Lindert’s new book: Making Social Spending Work.  Lindert’s new work brilliantly examines the history of public social spending around the world, asking the key question: What works?  His answer: A lot.  Sachs and Lindert discuss key challenges today: How to deal with an aging population?  Is migration a cost or a benefit for society?  Where should we put our biggest social investments?  (Hint: In our children).  Join this session to listen to the world’s great historian and analyst of social spending, Prof. Peter Lindert.

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