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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... poorest people to escape from the trap of extreme poverty . The seemingly " soft issues " of the environment , public health , population growth , and extreme poverty will become the hard issues of geopoli- tics in coming years . Indeed ...
... poorest people to escape from the trap of extreme poverty . The seemingly " soft issues " of the environment , public health , population growth , and extreme poverty will become the hard issues of geopoli- tics in coming years . Indeed ...
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... extreme poverty than justaboutany otherpart of the world. Yet the UnitedStates has completely failedto recognizeour common links with these regions, and instead hascarried onan utterly destructive waron peoples and societies ...
... extreme poverty than justaboutany otherpart of the world. Yet the UnitedStates has completely failedto recognizeour common links with these regions, and instead hascarried onan utterly destructive waron peoples and societies ...
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... poor , and ending extreme poverty - will take center stage . Global cooperation will have to come to the fore . The very idea of competing nation - states that scramble for markets , power , and resources will become passé . The idea ...
... poor , and ending extreme poverty - will take center stage . Global cooperation will have to come to the fore . The very idea of competing nation - states that scramble for markets , power , and resources will become passé . The idea ...
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... extreme poverty , or used as a dumping ground for the toxic , without jeopardizing and diminishing all the rest . It might seem that such global cooperation will prove to be utopian . The prevailing unilateralism of the United States ...
... extreme poverty , or used as a dumping ground for the toxic , without jeopardizing and diminishing all the rest . It might seem that such global cooperation will prove to be utopian . The prevailing unilateralism of the United States ...
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... extreme poverty unrelieved by global economic growth , and the poverty trap poses tragic hardships for the poor themselves and great risks for the rest of the world . • We are paralyzed in the very process of global problem solving ...
... extreme poverty unrelieved by global economic growth , and the poverty trap poses tragic hardships for the poor themselves and great risks for the rest of the world . • We are paralyzed in the very process of global problem solving ...
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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