Common wealth : economics for a crowded planet

By: Sachs, Jeffrey DMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London : Penguin, 2009Description: xi, 386 pISBN: 9780141026152 ; 0141026154Subject(s): Economic policy | Sustainable developmentDDC classification: 330
Contents:
PART ONE: New Economics for the Twenty-first Century. 1. Common Challenges, Common Wealth --- 2. Our Crowded Planet ---- PART TWO: Environmental Sustainability --- 3. The Anthropocene --- 4. Global Solutions to Climate Change --- 5. Securing Our Water Needs --- 6. A Home for All Species ---- PART THREE: The Demographic Challenge --- 7. Global Population Dynamics --- 8. Completing the Demographic Transition ---- PART FOUR: Prosperity for All. 9. The Strategy of Economic Development --- 10 Ending Poverty Traps --- 11. Economic Security in a Changing World ---- PART FIVE: Global Problem Solving. 12. Rethinking Foreign Policy --- 13. Achieving Global Goals --- 14. The Power of One.
Summary: One of the world's most famous and influential economists, Jeffery Sachs, addresses our most urgent concerns. He argues that the global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, one that will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life
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Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2008.

PART ONE: New Economics for the Twenty-first Century. 1. Common Challenges, Common Wealth ---
2. Our Crowded Planet ----
PART TWO: Environmental Sustainability ---
3. The Anthropocene ---
4. Global Solutions to Climate Change ---
5. Securing Our Water Needs ---
6. A Home for All Species ----
PART THREE: The Demographic Challenge ---
7. Global Population Dynamics ---
8. Completing the Demographic Transition ----
PART FOUR: Prosperity for All. 9. The Strategy of Economic Development ---
10 Ending Poverty Traps ---
11. Economic Security in a Changing World ----
PART FIVE: Global Problem Solving. 12. Rethinking Foreign Policy ---
13. Achieving Global Goals ---
14. The Power of One.

One of the world's most famous and influential economists, Jeffery Sachs, addresses our most urgent concerns. He argues that the global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, one that will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life

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