Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

Jeffrey D. Sachs. Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet.
Hardcover: 386 pp. Penguin, 2008.

"Jeffrey Sachs shows us that we need a new economic paradigm -- global, inclusive, cooperative, environmentally aware, and science based -- because we are running up against the realities of a crowded planet. ... Prosperity must be maintained through new strategies for sustainable development that complement market forces, spread sustainable technologies, stabilize the global population, and enable the billion poorest people to escape from the trap of extreme poverty." -- Jacket flap