Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

Jeffrey Sachs

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 May 2009
Pages
416
ISBN
9780141026152

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

Jeffrey Sachs

Essential reading … could easily end up serving as the manifesto for global affairs’

ALLISTER HEATH, LITERARY REVIEW

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

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