The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey Sachs
and reveals why we must - and how we can - change our economic culture in this time of crisis. This is a masterful roadmap for prosperity, a programme designed to bridge divides and provide a way forward that we - and our leaders - ignore at our peril.
The latest in a spate of books provoked by the world economic crisis and one of the best * Guardian *
The economic critique stands on its own merits * The Times *
Scholarly, original, independent, rigorous, enlightened and enlightening..Sachs goes so far to restore one's wavering faith in the informing inspiration of the post-1945 new dawn, faith in economics... and faith in humanity * Spectator *
The economic critique stands on its own merits * The Times *
Scholarly, original, independent, rigorous, enlightened and enlightening..Sachs goes so far to restore one's wavering faith in the informing inspiration of the post-1945 new dawn, faith in economics... and faith in humanity * Spectator *
Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute and Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, the globally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. In 2004 and 2005 he was named among the hundred most influential leaders in the world by Time magazine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099535768 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099535769 |
| Title | The Price of Civilization |
| Author | Jeffrey Sachs |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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