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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

by Jeffrey D Sachs

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In Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachsaone of the worldas most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Povertya offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity. Through crystalline examination of hard facts, Sachs predicts the cascade of crises that awaits this crowded planetaand presents a program of sustainable development and international cooperation that will correct this dangerous course. Few luminaries anywhere on the planet are as schooled in this daunting subject as Sachs, and this is the vital product of his experience and wisdom.

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The author of the "New York Times" bestseller "The End of Poverty" and one of the world's most respected economists offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity.
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ISBN:
9780143114871
Subtitle:
Economics for a Crowded Planet
Author:
Sachs, Jeffrey D
Author:
Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Subject:
Development - Sustainable Development
Subject:
Development - Economic Development
Publication Date:
March 2009
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
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Pages:
386
Dimensions:
844x538x94 74
Age Level:
17-17
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