Jeffrey Sachs

My conversation with Professor Jeffrey Sachs, an author, economist & globalization guru at Columbia University.

I recently had a chance to catch up with Jeffrey D. Sachs, a world-renowned professor of economics, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist. In his book, The Ages of Globalization, he takes readers through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change. Given that we are going through another technological shift, our conversation veered into the end of industrialization, the future of society in the digital age, and how to really think about globalization in the age of the network.

Here is an abbreviated transcript of our conversation:

Om: The new book is called The Ages of Globalization. I can’t help but notice the irony of the timing of the book. Whether it’s the coronavirus or whether it is our political environment, it seems globalization is out of fashion these days.

Jeffrey Sachs: