Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet - Hardcover

Sachs, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594201277 ISBN 13: 9781594201271

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2008

Synopsis

Presents the author's outline for achieving sustainable and equitable global prosperity that addresses key needs in the areas of environmental responsibility, energy, and biodiversity, in a cautionary account that predicts an unprecedented worldwide economic collapse under current political practices.

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'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

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'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

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594201277
• ISBN 13: 9781594201271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 386