About this title: From one of the world's greatest economic minds and author of the "New York Times" bestseller "The End of Poverty" comes this clear map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity, and a warning of the economic collapse that lies ahead if policies arent changed.
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Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Date Published: 2008
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Date Published: 2008
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Date Published: 2008
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Publisher: Penguin Audio
Date Published: 3-18-08
ISBN-13:9780143143031ISBN:0143143034
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"I scanned this book pretty superficially at the cottage last week. While I knew a lot of the details, it was good to see the picture put together. I also had a "duh" moment when I understood, for the first time, why resources like forests can get squandered so easily if privately owned: a private owner must beat the general interest rate in order to have a competitive investment, even if that means razing the property, selling the wood and writing off the property value."
"A comprehensive overview of most of the world's problems- climate, poverty, health, etc, so it was very dense with information. The language was accessible but it was enough to make the head spin when read all at once (I ended up only skimming the last few chapters in time for a f2f discussion group) I probably would not have read this if not for the f2f group but several of the topics would be interesting to read more about in a more narrow focus."
"Sachs tells us why it makes sense for all of us to work on alleviating world poverty. Desperate times makes for desperate people, and that affects everyone. (Consider the Somali pirates and why they have turned to piracy.)
I believe Sachs is trying to tell us in "business terms" and "economic sense" why it is in our self interest to help poverty nations. After all, if shear empathy won't work, let's apply numbers and charts and statistics and see if that will get people to support people they have little time to care about.
He makes good points. Even if you don't take any action yourself, he answers questions you may be asking yourself about why some countries don't do better."
"For me this book is a primer on what's most important going on in the world today, a useful paradigm on sustainable development and the need for all nations and all peoples to take responsibility for the earth - because it's not yet too late and we can still reverse the tide of environmental collapse, if we act now. Global social justice is also very much in Sachs' picture here - taking developed nations to task for providing very reasonable aid to help peoples in impoverished areas of the world achieve economic takeoff.
Thank God President Obama is now in power, and in his inaugural address today, emphasized the importance of the U.S. finally joining in with the rest of the world in global cooperation, to reverse the years of the Bush administration's "you're either with us or against us" foreign policy, promotion of conflict, destruction and war, and blatant disregard for the international consensus on the environment.
I also read Sachs' other book, "The End of Poverty", and that offered me an alternative and more balanced paradigm to simplistic sweeping criticisms of globalization."
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