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Common wealth : economics for a crowded planet / Jeffrey D. Sachs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sachs, Jeffrey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic policy.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 386 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- Assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity, with practical solutions based on a new economic paradigm for our crowded planet.
- Contents:
- Common challenges, common wealth
- Our crowded planet
- The anthropocene
- Global solutions to climate change
- Securing our water needs
- A home for all species
- Global population dynamics
- Completing the demographic transition
- The strategy of economic development
- Ending poverty traps
- Economic security in a changing world
- Rethinking foreign policy
- Achieving global goals
- The power of one.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-369) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594201271
- 1594201277
- OCLC:
- 167764116
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