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SUMMARY:Geography and the wealth of nations
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (LS
 E campus\, venue tbc to ticketholders)
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 27 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerProfessor Jeffrey D
  SachsChairSir Tim BesleyTwo hundred and fifty years after the publication
  of The Wealth of Nations\, Jeffrey D Sachs returns to one of Adam Smith's
  most striking claims: that "the discovery of America\, and that of a pass
 age to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope\, are the two greatest and
  most important events recorded in the history of mankind." Drawing on new
  geospatial datasets\, Professor Sachs argues that Smith's observation cap
 tures deep truths about long-term global economic change — truths that r
 emain profoundly relevant for our own age.Meet our speaker and chairJeffre
 y D Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainab
 le Development at Columbia University\, and President of the UN Sustainabl
 e Development Solutions Network. He has served as Special Advisor to three
  United Nations Secretaries-General and is the author of numerous books\, 
 including The Ages of Globalization: Geography\, Technology\, and Institut
 ions.Tim Besley is School Professor of Economics and Political Science and
  W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at LSE\, and Director 
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