THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION reveals why we must - and how we can - change our entire economic culture in this time of crisis.
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.
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*
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