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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... disease, and adult onset diabetes, the devastating lifestyle disease of the modern urban age. We shouldn't be entirely shocked. Each new scale of human settlement, from forager group tovillage tocity,has entailednew diseases,thoughin ...
... disease, and adult onset diabetes, the devastating lifestyle disease of the modern urban age. We shouldn't be entirely shocked. Each new scale of human settlement, from forager group tovillage tocity,has entailednew diseases,thoughin ...
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... diseases , terror , refugee move- ments , and conflict . The world is in fact experiencing several simultaneous transformations that offer the prospect of shared prosperity or devastating crises depending on how we respond as a global ...
... diseases , terror , refugee move- ments , and conflict . The world is in fact experiencing several simultaneous transformations that offer the prospect of shared prosperity or devastating crises depending on how we respond as a global ...
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... diseases that depend on large populations of susceptible individuals to sustain the long - term transmission of the disease . Moreover , the rising populations of large cities will be vulnerable to other nat- ural hazards , including ...
... diseases that depend on large populations of susceptible individuals to sustain the long - term transmission of the disease . Moreover , the rising populations of large cities will be vulnerable to other nat- ural hazards , including ...
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... disease of the modern urban age . We shouldn't be entirely shocked . Each new scale of human set- tlement , from forager group to village to city , has entailed new diseases , though in the past they were infectious diseases . As in the ...
... disease of the modern urban age . We shouldn't be entirely shocked . Each new scale of human set- tlement , from forager group to village to city , has entailed new diseases , though in the past they were infectious diseases . As in the ...
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... diseases , improved remote monitoring and conservation of biodiversity , and much more . To every dimension of sustainable development there is a crucial tech- nological need , which must be underpinned by investments in basic science ...
... diseases , improved remote monitoring and conservation of biodiversity , and much more . To every dimension of sustainable development there is a crucial tech- nological need , which must be underpinned by investments in basic science ...
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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