Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext How should we address the great, and interconnected, global challenges of the 21st century. Our task, Sachs argues, is to achieve truly sustainable development, by which he means finding a global course which enables the world to benefit from the spread of prosperity while ensuring that we don't destroy the eco-systems which keep us alive and our place in nature which helps sustain our values. How do we move forward together, benefitting from our increasing technological mastery, avoiding the dangers of climate change, famines, conflicts, population explosions in some parts of the world and collapses in others, and world-wide pandemic diseases? Zusammenfassung Tells about how we should address the great, and interconnected, global challenges of the twenty-first century. This book shows that there are different ways of managing the world's technology, resources and politics from those being followed.

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Jeffrey Sachs

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• Authors: Jeffrey Sachs, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Sachs Jeffrey
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9780141026152
• ISBN: 978-0-14-102615-2
• No. of pages: 386
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Economics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Weltwirtschaft, Entwicklungspolitik, Wirtschaftspolitik, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Geopolitics, Economic Geography, Popular economics