Episode Detail: Poverty Discussion with Gareth Stedman Jones, Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Emma Rothschild, Joseph Stiglitz, and Eric Foner - History on Book TV
Efforts to reduce poverty are discussed by a panel that includes Gareth Stedman Jones (“An End to Poverty?: A Historical Debate”); Jeffrey Sachs (“The End of Poverty”); Harvard economics professor Amartya Sen; and Emma Rothschild, co-director of the Centre for History and Economics. Columbia University historian Eric Foner and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz moderate.