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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... financing,put foreign leaders on CIA payrolls,and supportedviolent leaders who thencameback to haunt the United Statesin a notorious boomerang or “blowback”effect (includingSaddam Hussein andOsama binLaden, both onceontheCIA payroll) ...
... financing,put foreign leaders on CIA payrolls,and supportedviolent leaders who thencameback to haunt the United Statesin a notorious boomerang or “blowback”effect (includingSaddam Hussein andOsama binLaden, both onceontheCIA payroll) ...
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... financing , put foreign leaders on CIA payrolls , and sup- ported violent leaders who then came back to haunt the United States in a no- torious boomerang or " blowback " effect ( including Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden , both once ...
... financing , put foreign leaders on CIA payrolls , and sup- ported violent leaders who then came back to haunt the United States in a no- torious boomerang or " blowback " effect ( including Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden , both once ...
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... finance the crucial investments needed in the poorest countries to extricate them from the poverty trap ( and even that modest transfer to the poor would be temporary , perhaps lasting only until 2025 ) . Yet despite the huge imbalance ...
... finance the crucial investments needed in the poorest countries to extricate them from the poverty trap ( and even that modest transfer to the poor would be temporary , perhaps lasting only until 2025 ) . Yet despite the huge imbalance ...
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... financial impetus in the Monterrey Consensus of 2002 and at several summits of the so - called G8 , the eight richest large economies . Taken together , the Rio treaties , the Plan of Action on Population and Development , and the ...
... financial impetus in the Monterrey Consensus of 2002 and at several summits of the so - called G8 , the eight richest large economies . Taken together , the Rio treaties , the Plan of Action on Population and Development , and the ...
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... finance , pro- duction , technology , and migration - which creates deep interlinkages across the world , and which helps to spread the technologies that underpin pro- ductivity and economic development . Economists use the concept of ...
... finance , pro- duction , technology , and migration - which creates deep interlinkages across the world , and which helps to spread the technologies that underpin pro- ductivity and economic development . Economists use the concept of ...
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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