Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet - Softcover

Sachs, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143114875 ISBN 13: 9780143114871

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2009

Synopsis

Common Wealth The author of the "New York Times" bestseller "The End of Poverty" and one of the world's most respected economists offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity.

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Review:

"Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical... this is Bigthink with a capital B."
-The New York Times Book Review

"Jeffrey Sachs never disappoints. . . . This book is an excellent resource for all those who want to understand what changes the twenty-first century may bring."
-Kofi Annan, winner of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize and former secretary-general of the United Nations

"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

From the Back Cover:

'Essential reading ... could easily end up serving as the manifesto for global affairs' Allister Heath, Literary Review6.6 billion people and rising ...

We live on a crowded planet. Humans fill every part of the Earth, and now more and more of us are scrambling for ever-scarcer energy and resources. How can we make sure there's enough to go round?

Jeffrey Sachs is one of the world's leading thinkers and activists in economic development. In this inspiring new book he sets out a realistic, practical plan for solving the most severe crises our world faces - population growth, climate change, extreme poverty - in a way that will ultimately benefit all of us. By harnessing new technology and a new ethic of global co-operation, he shows, we can find common ground in our crowded world, leaving a healthy, healed planet for future generations. It is a book which appeals equally to the head and the heart.

'Common Wealth is a plan for saving the planet' Alan Beattie, Financial Times

'Timely and significant ... written with admirable clarity' Martin Vander Weyer, Daily Telegraph

'With powerful illustrations and moving words, he describes what humanity must do if we are to share a common future on this planet' Kofi Annan

'This is Bigthink with a capital B' Daniel Gross, International Herald Tribune

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0143114875
• ISBN 13: 9780143114871
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 386