The End of Poverty Economic Possibilities for Our Time

And I remember being in the airport and I picked up Jeffrey Sachs' end of poverty which is a popular book at the time and just thinking like here's a guy who like I don't know, was doing something pretty mundane macroeconomics but he was spending all his time talking world leaders in other countries out of crushing death that was causing poverty

and it's like taking whatever precocious skill he had and using it for others and I thought law is not my Jeff Sachs skill but what I do know how to do is motivate teenagers like that's how I spend all my time

And so when I wrote the book, The End of Poverty in 2005, I used the metaphor of the ladder of development and I said that it is often crucial to help the poorest of the poor get onto the ladder.