Aleksander Smolar - Jeffrey Sachs (64/201)
465 views · Published 18 December 2018 · 1:05 · Indexed 15 October 2026
Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2018 · News & Politics
To listen to more of Aleksander Smolar’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFwlxPLurqAOCrabBgGrqLA7 Aleksander Smolar (b. 1940) is a Polish writer, political activist and adviser, vice-president of the Institute for Human Sciences and president of the Stefan Batory Foundation. [Listener: Vitek Tracz] TRANSCRIPT: I remember that in matters relating to the economy, that too, wasn’t an area I was involved in, but there was a fascinating meeting with Jeffrey Sachs. Jeffrey Sachs, who is mostly forgotten today with only the far right remembering him in their mythical, conspiratorial vision of history where he, along with George Soros, landed Poland in a mess by imposing these terrible colonial conditions; the language of the extreme left was partly taken over by the right. But I remember how he used to do rounds from time to time when there was something important going on that he felt he should be monitoring, and then he would turn up with his little computer. At that time, laptops were practically unheard of; he had a laptop and would arrive with it and he had an agenda, he spoke about the things that needed to be done.
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