Jeffrey Sachs Quotes

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

Globalization is the central reality of our time.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Globalization is the speed of light.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

You can't stop globalization any more than you can stop computers.

Technology has miniaturized the globe, reducing vast oceans to mere ponds. Distant countries are now almost neighbors as our bodies travel faster than the speed of sound and our voices at the speed of light. ... Today the world is not much bigger than a ball spinning on the finger of science.

Like it or not, the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether the government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant. American society is about the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American Society is constantly creating new businesses, new technologies, new ideas and new social models. These innovations travel, and they make trouble when they do.

This [the advent of radio] was the first time in the history of mankind that people in different places heard the same thing at the same time.

… ideas. commodities even, refuse the bounds of a nation. All are inextricably connected…. This is true especially of our modern world with its complex commerce and means of intellectual connection.

Globalization is a fact, because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation. And we're not going to be able to build a wall around that.

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the East; maybe new technologies and too much travel undermine the idea of provinciality.

I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

Globalization is a fact of economic life.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.