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Conversation with John Mearsheimer, How States Think

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist John Mearsheimer as they discuss Professor Mearsheimer’s latest book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy. Hailed as the…

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The Intertemporal Budget Constraint of a Country

In this chapter, Professor Sachs talks about the longer-term implications of capital flows. The current account balance gives a snapshot of how a country is acting at any moment in time. In order to…

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The European Immolation and Decolonization

Professor Sachs begins by talking about the age of Britain, or the Pax Britannica, which ended with World War I; and the Treaty of Versailles, which didn’t allow Europe to recover its economic…

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