false 664895 11 From one of the world's greatest economic minds, author of <i>The New York Times</i> bestseller <i>The End of Poverty</i>, a clear and vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity and an augury of the global economic collapse that lies ahead if we don't follow it <br/><br/> The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, one that will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life. The changes will be deeper than a rebalancing of economics and politics among different parts of the world; the very idea of competing nation-states scrambling for power, resources, and markets will in some crucial respects become pass&#142;. The only question is how bad it will have to get before we face the unavoidable. We will have to learn on a global scale some of the hard lessons that successful societies have gradually and grudgingly learned within national borders: that there must be common ground between rich and poor, among competing ethnic groups, and between society and nature. <br/><br/> The central theme of Jeffrey Sachs's new book is that we need a new economic paradigm-global, inclusive, cooperative, environmentally aware, science-based-because we are running up against the realities of a crowded planet. The alternative is a worldwide economic collapse of unprecedented severity. Prosperity will have to be sustained through more cooperative processes, relying as much on public policy as on market forces to spread technology, address the needs of the poor, and to husband threatened resources of water, air, energy, land, and biodiversity. The "soft issues" of the environment, public health, and population will become the hard issues of geopolitics. New forms of global politics will in important ways replace capital-city-dominated national diplomacy and intrigue. National governments, even the U.S., will become much weaker actors as scientific networks and socially responsible investors and foundations become the more powerful actors. <br/><br/> If we do the right things, there is room for all on the planet. We can achieve the four key goals of a global society: prosperity for all, the end of extreme poverty, stabilization of the global population, and environmental sustainability. These are not utopian goals or pipedreams, yet they are far from automatic. Indeed, we are not on a successful trajectory now to achieve these goals. <i>Common Wealth</i> points the way to the course correction we must embrace for the sake of our common future. 650954 2005 Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet total:196|5:51|4:74|3:51|2:16|1:4| 196 740 741 67 5 2 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 12:08:55 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 08:21:35 -0800 2008
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However, there's nothing hugely original here, and it's been covered elsewhere in more compelling ways. Also, Sachs takes on a professorial tone far...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jan 02 14:28:19 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 21:20:51 -0800 2009
I really hate it when people use weak arguments to support ideas I agree with. I think it does more harm than good. I really didn't like how Sachs presents as an established fact that the f...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed May 20 08:06:16 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 08:12:14 -0700 2009
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