If there’s one force that can affect social change, it’s a bunch of tech types ripped away from their computers and interfacing with one another. Inspired, perhaps, by the monumental leaps forward the TED conference has given our society, the Social Good Summit, presented by web concern Mashable, overlaps with the United Nations’s General Assembly Read More
— Jeffrey Sachs, the noted Harvard economist and director of the Earth Institute, has just purchased an apartment at the Nevada Towers on 69th and Broadway, according to city records. The expert on global poverty paid $1.185 million, and the deed lists Mr. Sachs, his daughter and her husband.
— Actress Connie Fisher Stevens, who Read More
It wasn’t all doom and gloom at Friday’s premiere of “The End of Poverty?” at Village East Cinemas. The film, which traces the origins of global poverty back to the Age of Exploration, offers a reason for hope: things might soon get so bad that the impoverished will rise up in armed rebellion.
The Read More
Here’s an invitation to a fund-raiser later this week for Council member Bill de Blasio at the Manhattan home of investment banker Jeffrey Sachs.
De Blasio, along with the majority of the Council, will be term-limited out of office in 2009. He was a key figure in Hillary Clinton's Read More
On Dec. 9, several of Columbia University’s top climate scientists gathered at their colleague Jeffrey Sachs’ townhouse on West 85th Street to help a new student catch up on the latest research on climate change. Of course, no mere undergraduate could command four hours of the professors’ attention on this unseasonably warm Saturday afternoon. Don’t Read More
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, by Jeffrey Sachs. The Penguin Press, 396 pages, $27.95.
Consider the banality of modern-day evil: As Jeffrey Sachs reminds us in his new book, eight million impoverished men, women and children are condemned to death each year-not by terrorists or a modern-day Hitler or Stalin, Read More
Seagram heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. this week put his double-wide East 64th Street townhouse on the market for a near-record high of $40 million-just as neighbor and billionaire art dealer Alec Wildenstein put his own mansion on the market for $35 million right next-door.
Mr. Bronfman’s 31-foot-wide mansion, at 15 East 64th Street, sports a Read More
