Common Wealth
Economics for a Crowded Planet
$29.05
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2009
Summary
A passionate and original vision of how economics should be recast to sustain the world in the twenty-first century
This is a book about how we should address the great, and interconnected, global challenges of the twenty-first century. Our task, Sachs argues, is to achieve truly sustainable development, by which he means finding a global course which enables the world to benefit from the spread of prosperity while ensuring that we don’t destroy the eco-systems which keep us alive and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141026152 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141026154 |
| Author: | Jeffrey Sachs |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2009 |
| Weight: | 307g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
‘This is an impressive exercise in presenting complex subject matter in plain English, and relating the practicalities of life- subsistence agriculture and water management, for example - to the biggest ideas of modern science’ - Martin Vander Weyer, The Daily Telegraph ‘His new book ! bursts with ideas and is suffused with what can only be described as irrepressible optimism’ - Ed Pilkington, The Guardian
About The Author
Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and the global best-selling author of The End of Poverty. He is also the BBC’s Reith Lecturer for 2007 and is internationally renowned for his work as an economic advisor to governments around the world.
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