Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid

Jeffrey Sachs is a man with many faces. A celebrated economist and special advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon he is also no stranger to the world of celebrity accompanying Bono Madonna and Angelina Jolie on high-profile trips to Africa. Once notorious as the progenitor of a brutal form of free market engineering called "shock therapy" Sachs now positions himself as a voice of progressivism condemning the "1 per cent" and promoting his solution to extreme poverty through the Millennium Villages Project. <br><br>Appearances can be deceiving. <i>Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid</i> is the story of an evangelical development expert who poses as saviour of the Third World while opening vulnerable nations to economic exploitation. Based on documentary research and on-the-ground investigation <i>Jeffrey Sachs</i> exposes Mr. Aid as no more than a new more human face of Dr. Shock.