I don’t disagree with prof Sachs’ assessment of past dominance by the west. However, I don’t think he has recognized the deepest reason that dominance occured and how to fix it. That reason/problem is the human civilization-long monopoly monetary paradigm concept for the creation and distribution of all NEW money which is Debt ONLY. The word ONLY designates that paradigm as a monopoly concept. Paradigm concepts are deeply unconscious acculturated and hence generally unperceived realities. The short course in paradigmology is the following: 1) New paradigms are always in complete conceptual opposition to the present anomalous paradigm 2) The benefits of all historical paradigm changes have always been an aspect or aspects of the natural philosophical (not necessarily religious) concept of grace like abundance, resolution of problems, greater survival and thriving, a new conscious awareness of a tool, system, body of knowledge or area of human endeavor. The new monetary and economic paradigm is Monetary Gifting (complete conceptual opposition to Debt ONLY as in the burden to repay) and Gifting/A Gift is an aspect of grace. To see the entire thought behind the new monetary paradigm and its policies you can visit my blog here: wisdomicsblog.com and my book here: https://www.amazon.com/Wisdomics-Gracenomics-New-Monetary-Paradigm-Policies-ebook/dp/B0C49B9PX7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1552358772&sr=1-1-catcorr