Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the past 200 years, wealth and poverty have diverged and evolved across the planet, and why the poorest n…
Contents: 1. Diagnosing America's economic crisis 2. Prosperity lost 3. The free-market fallacy 4. Washington's retreat from public purpose 5. The divided nation 6. The new globalization etc.