Common Wealth
Reviewed on: 2/06/2008
This book discusses how we should address the interconnected global challenges of the twenty-first century. Sachs argues that to achieve truly sustainable development, we need to find a global course which enables the world to benefit from the spread of prosperity while ensuring that we don't destroy the eco-systems which keep us alive and our place in nature which helps sustain our values. How do we move forward together, benefitting from our increasing technological mastery, avoiding the dangers of what we are doing in the meantime to our climate and our world colleagues. How do we steer global politics when there are now so many who believe they are entitled to a hand on the steering wheel? In answering these questions, "Common Wealth" judges vast quantities of information from many different fields of study which bear on each of the interconnected areas of politics, economics and ecology.
Professor Sachs is on the faculty at the School of International and Public Affairs and is director of the Earth Institute, both at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and was previously Special Advisor to Kofi Annan, Director of the UN Millennium Project, and was advisor to a number of governments around the world at times of economic crisis.
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