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  by whitekl

• Current

Type: educational

Status: favorite

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

Tags: economics poverty africa non-fiction connections social_justice

Description: Required reading. I haven't yet finished this but I was in love from page one. This bookRequired reading. I haven't yet finished this but I was in love from page one. This book takes the end of poverty and makes it real, makes it a possibility. Sachs delves into economic history a long way back and proposes that we are at a point in that history where if we want to do something to end certain kinds of suffering, we can. And then he tells us how. So it's up to us. Got it? Got it....

2006-08-05

  by digitalautumn

• Current

Type: educational

Status: I recommend

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

Tags: economics poverty non-fiction

Description: A very good read clarifying Sachs' thinking on how and why we can end extreme poverty byA very good read clarifying Sachs' thinking on how and why we can end extreme poverty by 2025. Also includes a history of his work with governments which demonstrates some of the issues and techniques in macroeconomics. He makes clear with simple data why it's possible to end extreme poverty, and how little we're currently doing....

2006-04-24

  by mrg1011

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

2006-03-21

  by chrija

• Current

Type: scientific

Status: favorite

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

2005-09-28

  by whywontyoowork

• Current

Type: educational

Status: now reading

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

2005-09-03