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Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
from Penguin Press HC, The
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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excellent analysis and ideas, hurt by partisanship
Jeffrey Sachs has thought about many subjects at great depth, and writes about them with great learning and clarity. He seems to have thought about all the key points and many details. Could we do X about some problem? He's thought about it and has an opinion, or lots of them! I imagine he'd be a tough debating opponent.
His strongest material is about population, food and environmental destruction. Professor Sachs is both quite depressing and optimistic. He pulls no punches in calling out humanity for... more info
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Grandiose Solutions...But How Realistic? 
My local church is devoting the next several months to promoting the UN's eight "Millennium Development Goals," which have been formally endorsed by the Episcopal Church USA. I read "Commonwealth" to get new insights about the many challenges, obstacles and opportunities we face in the 21st century.
Unfortunately, the author's conclusions left me feeling vaguely unsatisfied -- you could even say "intellectually malnourished." Jeffrey Sachs is no doubt a brilliant thinker who sees the big picture, but I... more info
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Good, but Oversimplified!
Sachs begins by telling us that the 20th century saw the end of European dominance of global politics and economics, and the 21st will see the end of American dominance - probably within the first half. Simultaneously, we will also confront the challenges of sustainable development - protecting the environment, stabilizing population, narrowing the gaps between rich and poor, and illegal migration take center stage. Global cooperation, not unrestrained market forces and competing nation-states, will be... more info
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Necessary 
Truly a must-read. I assure non-economists wary of econojargin: if you read books, this one's accessible enough for you.
The book sheds light onto the roots of the world's problems from a UN economist's perspective.
The complex web of cause and effect, and of problem and solution, occasionally seems to present contradictions, but it ultimately serves to reveal how complicated things truly are, and therefore, just how delicate, prescriptive, and adaptable the next generation of policies must be.
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