Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

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Penguin, 2008 - Economic policy - 386 pages
Assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity, with practical solutions based on a new economic paradigm for our crowded planet.
 

Contents

The Anthropocene
57
Global Solutions to Climate Change
83
Securing Our Water Needs ྡྲ
115
A Home for All Species
139
Global Population Dynamics
159
The Strategy of Economic Development
205
Ending Poverty Traps
227
Economic Security in a Changing World
255
Rethinking Foreign Policy
271
Achieving Global Goals
291
The Power of One
313
Acknowledgments
341
List of Acronyms
347
References
361
Index
371
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