Jeffrey D. Sachs, Author ; Foreword by Bono. Penguin Press $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59420-045-8
Sachs came to fame advising "shock therapy" for moribund economies in the 1980s (with arguably positive results); more recently, as director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, he has made news with a plan to end global "extreme
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Jeffrey D. Sachs, Author . Penguin $27.95 (386p) ISBN 978-1-59420-127-1
In this sobering but optimistic manifesto, development economist Sachs (The End of Poverty
) argues that the crises facing humanity are daunting—but solutions to them are readily at hand. Sachs focuses on four challenges for the coming decades:
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Jeffrey D. Sachs. Random, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6841-8
Best known for advising postcommunist and impoverished countries on development strategies, economist Sachs (Common Wealth) takes on the cesspool of debt, backwardness, and corruption that is the United States in this hard-hitting brief for a humane
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Jeffrey D. Sachs. Random, $26 (226p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9492-6
UN special advisor Sachs (Price of Civilization) revisits the Cold War challenges facing the Kennedy administration during the Strangelove-ian era between October 1962 and September 1963. In this careful study, Sachs zeroes in on four key speeches...
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Jeffrey D. Sachs. Columbia Univ, $35 trade paper (544p) ISBN 978-0-231-17315-5
Sachs (The End of Poverty), an economist and director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, argues that it’s time for humankind to reconcile its needs with those of the planet, in this sprawling manifesto. He surveys the great dilemma facing...
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