Authors@Google: Jeffrey Sachs, "The Price of Civilization"

"The Price of Civilization" As he has done in dozens of countries around the world in the midst of economic crises, Sachs turns his unique diagnostic skills to what ails the American economy. He finds that both political parties—and many leading economists—have missed the big picture, offering shortsighted solutions such as stimulus spending or tax cuts to address complex economic problems that require deeper solutions. Sachs argues that we have profoundly underestimated globalization's long-term effects on our country, which create deep and largely unmet challenges with regard to jobs, incomes, poverty, and the environment. America's single biggest economic failure, Sachs argues, is its inability to come to grips with the new global economic realities. Yet Sachs goes deeper than an economic diagnosis. By taking a broad, holistic approach—looking at domestic politics, geopolitics, social psychology, and the natural environment as well—Sachs reveals the larger fissures underlying our country's current crisis. He shows how Washington has consistently failed to address America's economic needs. He describes a political system that has lost its ethical moorings, in which ever-rising campaign contributions and lobbying outlays overpower the voice of the citizenry. He also looks at the crisis in our culture, in which an overstimulated and consumption-driven populace in a ferocious quest for wealth now suffers shortfalls of social trust, honesty, and compassion. Finally, Sachs ...



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Jeffrey Berg, '69, Chairman and CEO of International Creative Management Talent Agency

Hear Jeffrey Berg, English '69, in conversation with Professor Samuel Otter, Chair of the Department of English, and Professor Kevis Goodman. Mr. Berg is the Chairman and CEO of International Creative Management, one of the world's largest talent agencies, representing artists in the fields of motion pictures, television, music, publishing, live performance, new media, and other entertainment. In this video, he talks about how he got from a Cal English BA to his present position, what it is like to locate talent and to work with the artists he represents, the value both of an English major and a public university system, Berkeley in the late '60s, and more. Questions and answers follow.



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