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Common Wealth
- Economics for a Crowded Planet
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hilgartner
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Common Wealth
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Publisher's Summary
“Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical . . . this is Bigthink with a capital B.”—The New York Times Book Review
“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
In Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs—one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty—offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity. Through crystalline examination of hard facts, Sachs predicts the cascade of crises that awaits this crowded planet—and presents a program of sustainable development and international cooperation that will correct this dangerous course. Few luminaries anywhere on the planet are as schooled in this daunting subject as Sachs, and this is the vital product of his experience and wisdom.
What the critics say
“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