Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

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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

Jeffrey Sachs is an economist and the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became renowned his work throughout the developing world and on the challenges of economic development, environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation and globalization. He has twice been named one of Time magazine's '100 Most Influential People in the World'. He has authored numerous books, including The End of Poverty and Common Wealth, both New York Times bestsellers. 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.

'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