The Age of Sustainable Development

Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development.

Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metrics, and practical pathways they need to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Far more than a rhetorical exercise, this book is designed to inform, inspire, and spur action. Based on Sachs's twelve years as director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, his thirteen years advising the United Nations secretary-general on the Millennium Development Goals, and his recent presentation of these ideas in a popular online course, The Age of Sustainable Development is a landmark publication and clarion call for all who care about our planet and global justice.

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• Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
• A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
• The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
• Development as Freedom
• Environment: The Science Behind the Stories (6th Edition)
• Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable
• Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
• Environmental Policy and Politics