Jeffrey Sachs
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3,689 appearances
22 recordings
10 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 6d ago
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consequent decisions need to be made skillfully and the decisions are a big deal they have a very very large consequence i i would call them non-linearities meaning it's uh that that the consequence of the choice can take us into a disaster or into uh
into solution.
So in other words, these are really big choices.
And the truth is individuals make a big difference at times like this.
What we've seen, what I've tried to understand, you know better than I do, but I'm trying to understand the decision process in the US government right now.
Normally, you would have a deliberative process.
We know a process that I've studied very carefully, as have many, many scholars, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
President Kennedy immediately installed an executive committee, EXCOMM, and during the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, they met.
repeatedly, they debated, they discussed options.
It was all put on tape.
It's all been studied for decades later.
Many of the judgments that were made were very wrong.
And one of the lessons, by the way, of the Cuban Missile Crisis was that it was President Kennedy's cool and rationality and decency
that saved the world, actually.
Quite a remarkable truth, because many hotheads and many hotheads in senior military positions, especially Curtis LeMay, said, oh, go blow up the commies.
Let's go to nuclear war.
And almost to the point of insubordination, LeMay was pressing Kennedy to launch attacks.
And basically,
accusing Kennedy of not standing up properly for America.
Kennedy did, saved the world.
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