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Key Note

THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION reveals why we must - and how we can - change our entire economic culture in this time of crisis.

Key Features/Quotes

• The global bestselling author of The End of Poverty and Common Wealth.
• This book will show how each part of the world economy should adjust to avert environmental and population crises.
• Holds practical suggestions for making global co-operation on key developmental issues work.

About the Book: The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall

One of the world's most brilliant economists and the bestselling author of The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs has written a book that is essential reading for everyone-politicians, people in business and industry, and you. Setting out a bold and provocative, yet responsible and achievable, plan, THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION reveals why we must - and how we can - change our entire economic culture in this time of crisis.

The world economy remains in a precarious state after the recent global recession-where quick fixes were implemented instead of sustainable solutions to systemic
problems. Jeffrey Sachs argues powerfully for a new co-operative, common-sense political economy, one that stresses practical partnership between government and the private sector, demands competence in both arenas and occasionally insists on carefully chosen public and private sacrifices. In this new era of global capitalism, Sachs believes that we have to forget partisanship and solve these enormous problems together, clinically and holistically, just as one would approach the eradication of a disease.

THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION explains how government can be made to reform corporate culture by fairly policing compensation but not stifling competition and forced to improve our energy infrastructure by both taxing emissions and providing market incentives for innovation. Sachs shows how government, business and citizens can find common ground - on bank accountability, the decentralising of social services and taxing the super-rich - as a way to achieve our shared goals of efficiency, equity and sustainability.

Sparing no-one but potentially benefiting us all, THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION is a masterful roadmap, a programme designed to bridge seemingly impossible divides in our society and a way forward that we - and our leaders - ignore at our peril.

Praise for Other Titles by this Author

• The End of Poverty: 'The ideas in the book have a hook you won't forget; the end of poverty... In Jeff's hands, the millstone of opportunity around our necks becomes an adventure, something doable and achievable.' - BONO, U2
• 'Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient... Outstanding' - Economist

About the Author: Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon-from 2002 to 2006, he was Special Advisor on the Millennium Development Goals, designed to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. In 2004 and 2005 he was named among the 100 most influential leaders in the world by Time magazine.