Jeffrey Sachs

Hemos iniciado una nueva decada con un enorme desempleo, una deuda pública masiva, una desigualdad y un empobrecimiento crecientes, y un entorno natural cada vez más devastado. El sistema sirve a los muy ricos, a los gestores y a las grandes corporaciones, pero no al resto. Los gobiernos estan en manos de los mercados y los especuladores. La competencia de China y otros paises emergentes se intensifica mientras su nivel educativo y su tecnologia no cesan de mejorar. ¿Hay alguna via de salida para Estados Unidos y Europa? Jeffrey Sachs, considerado como uno de los tres economistas mas influyentes del mundo por The Economist, propone en este libro una nueva forma de entender la politica y la gestion de la economia que puede rescatar el mundo occidental del colapso economico, la perdida de competividad y el empobrecimiento de las clases medias y que represente los intereses de toda la sociedad y no unicamente de los millonarios y las grandes empresas. El precio de la civilizacion es una lectura esencial para cualquier ciudadano occidental. Hay demasiado en juego como para abandonarse a la indiferencia.

One of the worlds most brilliant economists and the bestselling author of The End of Poverty and Common Wealth, Jeffrey Sachs has written a book that is essential reading for everyone. In this time of crisis, The Price of Civilization sets out a bold and provocative, yet responsible and achievable, plan; and reveals why we must - and how we can - change our economic culture in this time of crisis.This is a masterful roadmap for prosperity, a programme designed to bridge divides and provide a way forward that we - and our leaders - ignore at our peril.

an insiders analysis of the political events and economic strategy behind the countrys swift transition to capitalism and democracyIn Polands jump to the Market Economy, Jeffrey Sachs provides an insiders analysis of the political events and economic strategy behind the countrys swift transition to capitalism and democracy. The greatest challenges to economic reform, Sachs points out, have been primarily political in nature, rather than social or even economic. Sachs reviews Polands striking progress since the start of the economic reforms three years ago, which he helped to design. He discusses the gains - more than half of employment and GDP is now in the private sector, exports to Western Europe have more than doubled, and economic growth and confidence are returning - as well as the serious problems that remain - high unemployment, a chronic fiscal deficit, the slow pace of privatization of large industrial enterprises, and the fragility of multiparty coalition governments.Sachs points out that leadership is crucial to economic reform in a newly democratic setting, as is the Wests timely economic assistance. In Polands case, the Zloty Stabilization Fund and the two-stage debt cancellation have been essential to keeping the reform program on track. Polands example has had a powerful impact on reforms throughout the region, including the former Soviet Union, and has done much to dispel the fear that the citizens themselves, allegedly made lazy by decades of socialism, would reject the competitive rigors of a market economy. Overall, Sachs remains firmly convinced of the potential for successful economic reforms in Poland and the rest of the region.

The inspiring story of JFK, the Cold War, and the power of oratory to change the course of history.John F. Kennedys last great campaign was not the battle for re-election that he did not live to wage, but the struggle for a sustainable peace with the Soviet Union. To Move the World recalls the extraordinary days from October 1962 to September 1963, when JFK marshaled the power of oratory and his astonishing political skills towards that end. Jeffrey Sachs shows how Kennedy emerged from the Cuban Missile Crisis with the determination and capabilities to forge a new direction for the world. Together, he and the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, both deeply affected by this near-death experience, would pull the world away from the nuclear precipice and chart a path for future peacemakers. During his final year in office Kennedy gave a series of speeches in which he sought to argue, against widespread pessimism, that peace with the Soviets was possible. He used his great gifts of persuasion on multiple fronts with fractious allies, hawkish Republican congressmen, and dubious members of his own administration to persuade America, the Soviet Union, and the world that cooperation between the superpowers was both realistic and necessary.To Move the World gives us a startlingly fresh perspective on Kennedys presidency and an inspiring model for strong leadership and problem solving in our time.

Nuestro futuro está en juego. Los 7.200 millones de personas que habitamos este planeta competimos por hacernos un hueco en la economía mundial, cada vez más conectada gracias a la tecnología, el comercio y las migraciones, y bajo la creciente amenaza de desastre ambiental. Para asegurar nuestra supervivencia, es urgente que tomemos plena conciencia de esta situacion y emprendamos las reformas necesarias.En La era del desarrollo sostenible, el reconocido economista Jeffrey Sachs defiende que el desarrollo sostenible debe convertirse en el marco de la politica de cualquier Estado. Dentro de poco tiempo, los 193 estados miembros de la ONU adoptaran los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) para ayudar a guiar al mundo en la proxima generacion.Sachs ofrece el primer enfoque integral para esta nueva era y para los nuevos ODS, el examen de las complejas interacciones de la economia, la sociedad y el medio ambiente, y explica como una estrategia integral puede ayudar a las sociedades a conseguir la combinacion de prosperidad economica, inclusion social y la sostenibilidad ambiental.

Nuestro futuro está en juego. Los 7.200 millones de personas que habitamos este planeta competimos por hacernos un hueco en la economía mundial, cada vez más conectada gracias a la tecnología, el comercio y las migraciones, y bajo la creciente amenaza de desastre ambiental. Para asegurar nuestra supervivencia, es urgente que tomemos plena conciencia de esta situacion y emprendamos las reformas necesarias.En La era del desarrollo sostenible, el reconocido economista Jeffrey Sachs defiende que el desarrollo sostenible debe convertirse en el marco de la politica de cualquier Estado. Dentro de poco tiempo, los 193 estados miembros de la ONU adoptaran los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) para ayudar a guiar al mundo en la proxima generacion.Sachs ofrece el primer enfoque integral para esta nueva era y para los nuevos ODS, el examen de las complejas interacciones de la economia, la sociedad y el medio ambiente, y explica como una estrategia integral puede ayudar a las sociedades a conseguir la combinacion de prosperidad economica, inclusion social y la sostenibilidad ambiental.

Kate Orff has an optimistic and transformative message about our world: we can bring together social and ecological systems to sustainably remake our cities and landscapes. Part monograph, part manual, part manife-sto, Toward an Urban Ecology reconceives urban landscape design as a form of activism, demonstrating how to move beyond familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about environmental, urban, and social issues as separate domains; and advocating for the synthesis of practice to create a truly urban ecology. In purely practical terms, SCAPE has already generated numerous tools and techniques that designers, policy makers, and communities can use to address some of the most pressing issues of our time, including the loss of biodiversity, the loss of social cohesion, and ecological degradation. Toward an Urban Ecology features numerous projects and select research from SCAPE, and conveys a range of strategies to engender a more resilient and inclusive built environment.