A new book by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, appears to step forward from his book, The End of Poverty.
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March 26 (Bloomberg) -- With the U.S. military burning through some $500 billion a year, it's startling to think we could end extreme world poverty for half that amount.
That's what Jeffrey D. Sachs estimates in ``Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet,'' a book smartly balanced between apocalyptic warnings and cautious utopianism.
Sachs made his name by prescribing economic shock treatment for countries such as Bolivia, Poland and Russia. He later turned his considerable brain power to the question of how to end the poverty, hunger and disease that grip the world's poorest 1 billion people. He now directs the UN Millennium Project and the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York.
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