The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, one that will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life.The 21st century saw the end of European dominance of global politics and economics.The 21st century will see the end of United States dominance as well. The bloodshed in the streets of Baghdad reflects not merely poor U.S. planning but the limits of U.S. economic and political power. The world has become much too crowded and dangerous for more “Great Games” in the Middle East or anywhere else. The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate. We will flourish -- or perish -- together.
The central theme of Jeffrey Sachs’s new book is that we need -- and will arrive at, more or less painfully -- a new economic paradigm -- global, inclusive, cooperative, environmentally aware, science based -- because we are running up against the realities of a crowded planet. The alternative is a world-wide economic collapse of unprecedented severity. Prosperity will have to be sustained through more cooperative processes, relying as much on public policy as market forces to spread technology, address the needs of the poor, and to husband threatened resources of water, air, energy, land, and biodiversity. The "soft issues" of the environment, public health, and population will become the hard issues of geopolitics. National governments, even the U.S., will become much weaker actors. Scientific networks and socially responsible investors and foundations will become the more powerful actors.
If we do the right things, there is room for all on the planet. We can achieve the key four goals of a global society: prosperity for all, the end of extreme poverty, stabilization of the global population, and environmental sustainability. COMMON WEALTH points the way to the course correction we must embrace for the sake of our common future.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
£ 10.64
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Book Description Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. May contain underlining and/or highlighting. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. Seller Inventory # Z1-F-002-00849
Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Graphs & Charts (illustrator). First Edition. the bottom right-hand corner of the front cover has been crumpled due to careless handling. There is no other damage to detail. The book is illustrated with a central section of colour drawings and charts, and has numerous other tables and graphs. The author argues that a series of cascading threats to global well-being, the most significant being environmental degradation and rapid population growth  are solvable, but potentially disastrous of left unattended. He argues that the idea of nations must be replaced by a new era of global cooperation around shared goals  survival of mankind and the planet  paraphrasing the rear panel below Full number line. Size: Trade Paperback. XIV, 386 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Graphs & Charts. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Economics; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 184614048X. ISBN/EAN: 9781846140488. Inventory No: 0257290. Seller Inventory # 0257290
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 386 pages. In this book Jeffrey Sachs, one of the world's lea ding economists and author of the bestselling The End of Poverty, analyses and addresses the great, and interconnected, global cha llenges of the twenty-first century. A series of cascading threat s to global well-being - the most significant being environmental degradation and rapid population growth - bear down upon our inc reasingly crowded planet. All of them are solvable, Sachs argues, but potentially disastrous if left unattended. Our task is to achieve truly sustainable development, by which he means finding a global course which enables the world to benefit from the sprea d of prosperity while ensuring that we don't destroy the eco-syst ems which keep us alive and our place in nature which helps susta in our values. How do we move forward together, benefiting from o ur increasing technological mastery, avoiding the terrible danger s of climate change, mass famines, violent conflicts, population explosions in some parts of the world and collapses in others, an d world-wide pandemic diseases? How do we steer global politics w hen there are now so many who believe they are entitled to a hand on the wheel? In answering these questions, Common Wealthexami nes, digests and judges vast quantities of information from many different fields of study in each of the interconnected areas of politics, economics and ecology. Sachs shows that there are diffe rent ways of managing the world's technologies, resources and pol itics from those currently being followed, and that it should be possible to adopt policies which reflect long-term and co-operati ve thinking instead of, as currently, disregard for others and ev er-increasing barriers to solving the problems which we collectiv ely face. The very idea of nations that scramble for global power , natural resources and international markets is passe, and must be replaced by a new era of global co-operation around shared goa ls. Common Wealthis a book that appeals equally to both head and heart, and one which no globally thinking person can ignore. Seller Inventory # 1471ag
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Jeffrey Sachs, one of the world's leading economists and author of the bestselling 'The End of Poverty', analyses and addresses the great, and interconnected, global challenges of the twenty-first century. First Australian Edition, First Printing, Soft cover in very good condition 386pp, colour graphs and diagrams. Seller Inventory # 090360