Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid

An investigation of Sachs’s schizophrenic career, and the worldwide havoc he has caused.


Jeffrey Sachs is a man with many faces. A celebrated economist and special advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, he is also no stranger to the world of celebrity, accompanying Bono, Madonna and Angelina Jolie on high-profile trips to Africa. Once notorious as the progenitor of a brutal form of free market engineering called ‘shock therapy’, Sachs now positions himself as a voice of progressivism, ...