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Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

by Jeffrey Sachs

From one of the world's greatest economic minds, author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty, 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
The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, one that will overturn many of... (more)

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First of all, I am NOT an economist...I am far from it. I have trouble balancing my own checkbook let alone deciding how billions of people interact in the world economy. Despite my lack of background knowledge, Common Wealth was a truly engaging, informative, and (dare I say) entertaining read!

I found particularly interesting the chapters on global solutions to climate change and the entire section (two chapters) on demographics and the...

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    chris g said:

    I'm currently reading this book. I'm finding it incredibly thought provoking and sobering. Is anyone else reading this book right now?

    posted Tuesday, August 19 2008

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