The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute and Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, the globally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. In 2004 and 2005 he was named among the hundred most influential leaders in the world by Time magazine. Klappentext Setting out a provocative yet achievable plan, THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION reveals why we must - and how we can - change our entire economic culture in this time of crisis. The world economy remains in a precarious state after the recent global recession. Sachs argues for a cooperative, common-sense political economy, one that stresses practical partnership between government and the private sector, demands competence in both arenas, and occasionally insists on carefully chosen public and private sacrifices. Explaining how we can find common ground to achieve our shared goals of efficiency, equity and sustainability, ... Zusammenfassung and reveals why we must - and how we can - change our economic culture in this time of crisis. This is a masterful roadmap for prosperity, a programme designed to bridge divides and provide a way forward that we - and our leaders - ignore at our peril.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Sachs, Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.10.2012
• EAN: 9780099535768
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953576-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Business: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; Finanzkrise, Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, macroeconomics, Business ethics & social responsibility, Political Economy, Business ethics and social responsibility, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, economics; the end of poverty; economists