Comments on: Jeffrey Sachs: US Policy-Making Is a Bipartisan Failure, Failing to Even Acknowledge Environmental Challenges

By: pv

pv — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:00:24 +0000

We do not need a World governance nor a Swedish style of social model as Jeffrey Sachs argues. We only need a just monetary system. Such system can only be equitable and contribute to an efficient allocation of resources when money growth is zero or at the most limited to the growth of the real economy. Jeffrey Sachs’ climate alarmism in the run up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference next month must be understood as an ultimate attempt to convince conference goers to step into the global emissions bureaucracy.

http://workforall.net/Dangerous-Return-of-Utopian-Socialism.html

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Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:18:09 +0000

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By: Matt Olson

Matt Olson — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:56:33 +0000

Jeffrey Sachs is one of the few prominent integrative economic thinkers today. I always love hearing him speak, and would love to see video of this presentation.

It’s business as usual for industry to lobby against regulatory efforts, but my hope is that we can come up with a global framework that spreads the responsibilities evenly so that business plays its role in addressing the climate change crisis.

The type of short sighted thinking that leads business to reject any responsibility for the externalities they both generate and take advantage of is the same type of thinking that led to the financial crisis. Individuals were acting in their own self interest with no insight into the bigger picture. This is the weakness of capitalism, and why we need appropriate governance and regulation to keep the system as a whole sustainable.