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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... Scientific research proceeds in intellectual silos that make far too little contact with one another ; research in the physical sciences , biology , engi- neering , economics , and public health is rarely intertwined , even though we ...
... Scientific research proceeds in intellectual silos that make far too little contact with one another ; research in the physical sciences , biology , engi- neering , economics , and public health is rarely intertwined , even though we ...
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... scientific information in the pages that follow comes from the extraordinary research and teaching of my colleagues . I hope that as an economist I have been able to do at least some justice to the richness and wondrous insights of the ...
... scientific information in the pages that follow comes from the extraordinary research and teaching of my colleagues . I hope that as an economist I have been able to do at least some justice to the richness and wondrous insights of the ...
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... scientific and policy discipline. Itis one that at least currently is in short supply, since architects, city planners, ecologists, public health specialists,and environmental engineers still operate largely in disconnected disciplines ...
... scientific and policy discipline. Itis one that at least currently is in short supply, since architects, city planners, ecologists, public health specialists,and environmental engineers still operate largely in disconnected disciplines ...
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... scientific farming — including modern seed varieties , chemical fertilizers , modern irrigation , mechanization , and innovations in farm man- agement ( crop rotations , tillage , pest control , and more ) -has enabled a de- cling share ...
... scientific farming — including modern seed varieties , chemical fertilizers , modern irrigation , mechanization , and innovations in farm man- agement ( crop rotations , tillage , pest control , and more ) -has enabled a de- cling share ...
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... scientific and policy discipline . It is one that at least currently is in short supply , since architects , city planners , ecologists , public health specialists , and environ- mental engineers still operate largely in disconnected ...
... scientific and policy discipline . It is one that at least currently is in short supply , since architects , city planners , ecologists , public health specialists , and environ- mental engineers still operate largely in disconnected ...
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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