Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet“Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical . . . this is Bigthink with a capital B.” —The New York Times Book Review “Common Wealth explains the most basic economic reckoning that the world faces.” —Al Gore, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and former vice president of the United States In Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty- offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity. Through crystalline examination of hard facts, Sachs predicts the cascade of crises that awaits this crowded planet-and presents a program of sustainable development and international cooperation that will correct this dangerous course. Few luminaries anywhere on the planet are as schooled in this daunting subject as Sachs, and this is the vital product of his experience and wisdom. |
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... millennium , goals that Jeffrey Sachs calls our Millennium Promises . ( continued on back flap ) 0308 Common Wealth This One W4T2 - S9S - WB76 i.
... millennium , goals that Jeffrey Sachs calls our Millennium Promises . ( continued on back flap ) 0308 Common Wealth This One W4T2 - S9S - WB76 i.
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... Millennium Development Goals can be called our MillenniumPromises forsustainable development.They arethe promises that our generation madetoitselfand tofuture generationsat the startofthe new millennium. Asagroup, thesetreaties and ...
... Millennium Development Goals can be called our MillenniumPromises forsustainable development.They arethe promises that our generation madetoitselfand tofuture generationsat the startofthe new millennium. Asagroup, thesetreaties and ...
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... MILLENNIUM PROMISES The greatest economic and political challenges of our time - the sustainabil- ity of the environment , the stabilization of the world's population , and the end of extreme poverty - have certainly not escaped ...
... MILLENNIUM PROMISES The greatest economic and political challenges of our time - the sustainabil- ity of the environment , the stabilization of the world's population , and the end of extreme poverty - have certainly not escaped ...
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... millennium also brought with it new global commitments to fight extreme poverty , hunger , and disease . In 1994 ... Promises for sustainable development . They are the promises that our generation made to itself and to future ...
... millennium also brought with it new global commitments to fight extreme poverty , hunger , and disease . In 1994 ... Promises for sustainable development . They are the promises that our generation made to itself and to future ...
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... Millennium Promises . Market forces alone cannot solve these problems . First , market forces alone will not guarantee that the world's scientists and engineers direct their efforts to the development of high - S technologies . Many ...
... Millennium Promises . Market forces alone cannot solve these problems . First , market forces alone will not guarantee that the world's scientists and engineers direct their efforts to the development of high - S technologies . Many ...
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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