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This economist and an alphabetically later collaborator introduced the variables SOPEN (“SOH-pin”) and SXP (“S-X-P”), denoting openness to trade and resource intensity, in a 1995 paper attempting to explain slow economic growth in certain countries in the 1970s and ’80s. After writing a Vanity Fair profile on this economist, Nina Munk spent six years following his work, which she criticized in the book The Idealist. A book by this former director of the Earth Institute includes a (10[1])seven-part checklist for making a “differential (10[1])diagnosis” of the state of an economy. This economist advised Hugo (10[1])Banzer (10[1])(“OO-go bahn-SAIR”) to use price (10[1])deregulation (10[1])to combat hyperinflation (10[1])in Bolivia. (-5[1])A 2005 book by this economist argues that “clinical economics,” including strategic development aid, could eliminate the “dollar-a-day” form of the title phenomenon (10[2])by 2025. (10[3]-5[1])For 10 points, name this Columbia economist (10[1]-5[1])who (10[1])wrote The End (10[1])of Poverty. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[5])

ANSWER: Jeffrey Sachs [or Jeffrey David Sachs] (The collaborator in the first line was Andrew Warner.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2181%0%14%113.88

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Matt JacksonChicago ARutgers A7410
Natan HoltzmanStanford AGeorgia Tech B8010
Jerry LinDuke AGeorgia Tech A9110
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AIndiana A9210
Tracy MirkinFlorida APurdue A9510
Enoch YuenImperial AIowa State A9610
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AMinnesota A9910
Geoffrey WuColumbia AMcGill A101-5
Geoffrey ChenCornell AUC Berkeley A12410
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto ASouth Carolina A12410
Yared TadesseCornell BMinnesota B126-5
Clark SmithOhio State ARutgers B12610
Arthur Delot-VilainYale AWUSTL B12610
Matthew SiffYale BColumbia B12610
Todd MaslykMichigan AChicago C133-5
Caleb KendrickMaryland AHouston A13310
Ricky LiMIT AFlorida B13410
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard AVanderbilt A13710
Alex SchmidtPenn State AIllinois A13910
Walter ZhangBrown AClaremont A14010
Tomás Aguilar-FragaClaremont ABrown A1400
Nicholas TunksMinnesota BCornell B1400
Vaishali SivaJohns Hopkins ANorth Carolina A1400
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AJohns Hopkins A1400
Robert CondronChicago CMichigan A1400