傑弗裏·薩克斯教授的書籍

傑弗裏·薩克斯教授的書籍

https://www.jeffsachs.org/books

可持續發展行動中的道德規範 (2022)

聯合國於 2015 年通過的可持續發展目標是一項雄心勃勃、範圍廣泛的議程，將經濟、社會和環境目標統一起來。世界宗教和世俗傳統為支持這些目標提供了哪些資源？這些傳統有哪些共同的原則，這些共同的價值觀如何幫助推進全球目標？

本書介紹了不同宗教領袖、跨學科學者和從業者之間為尋求能夠為可持續發展努力奠定基礎的道德共識而進行的深入而深入的對話。本書借鑒了傑弗裏·薩克斯和馬塞洛·桑切斯·索隆多兩年多的密切討論，為如何促進人類繁榮提供了廣泛而包容的願景。本書以豐富多樣、深入的神學、哲學和倫理學探討了可持續發展的挑戰，探討了貧困、環境正義、和平、衝突和工作的未來等問題。書中包括關於可持續發展道德要求的共識聲明、七大宗教傳統及其共同利益概念的介紹以及主題反思。本書內容廣泛、緊迫，對宗教間對話和全球共同倫理的表達做出了重大貢獻。

全球化時代：地理、技術和機構 (2020)

當今最緊迫的問題從根本上說是全球性的。如果我們要確保長遠的未來，就需要全球範圍內的協調行動。但人類的故事一直是全球性的。在這本書中，著名經濟學家和可持續發展專家傑弗裏·薩克斯 (Jeffrey D. Sachs) 回顧世界曆史，闡明了我們如何應對 21 世紀的挑戰和機遇。

薩克斯帶領讀者經曆了七次不同的技術和製度變革浪潮，從早期現代人類通過長距離遷徙在地球上定居開始，到對當今全球化的反思結束。在此過程中，他思考了地理、技術和製度的相互作用如何影響新石器時代革命；馬在帝國興起中的作用；古典時代大型陸基帝國的擴張；從歐洲到亞洲和美洲的海上航線開通後全球帝國的崛起；以及工業時代。薩克斯表明，過去這些浪潮的動態為我們這個時代正在發生的進程提供了新的視角——基於數字技術的全球化。薩克斯強調需要新的國際治理和合作方法來防止衝突並實現與可持續發展相一致的經濟、社會和環境目標。《全球化時代》對於所有想要理解我們這個快速變化的世界的讀者來說都是一本至關重要的書。

新外交政策：超越美國例外論 (2018)

美國世紀始於 1941 年，結束於 2017 年 1 月 20 日。雖然美國仍然是一個軍事巨人，仍然是一個經濟強國，但它不再像以前那樣主宰世界經濟或地緣政治。當前外交政策轉向民族主義和“美國優先”單邊主義，不會讓美國變得偉大。相反，它代表了我們在麵臨嚴重環境威脅、政治動蕩、大規模移民和其他全球挑戰時放棄責任。

在這本深刻而有力的書中，傑弗裏·薩克斯為新的外交政策提供了藍圖，該政策包含全球合作、國際法和對全球繁榮的渴望——而不是民族主義和過去輝煌的虛幻夢想。他認為，美國對世界的態度必須從軍事力量和選擇性戰爭轉變為對可持續發展的共同目標的承諾。我們對主導地位的追求使我們陷入了不明智和無法取勝的戰爭，現在是時候從戰爭轉向和平，是時候抓住國際合作提供的機遇了。《新外交政策》探討了“美國優先”思維模式的危險和新出路的可能性，提出了及時和可行的計劃，以促進全球經濟增長，為二十一世紀重新配置聯合國，並建立一個繁榮、和平、公平和有彈性的多極世界。

建設新美國經濟：智能、公平和可持續 (2017)

在這本充滿激情和力量的書中——一部分是宣言，一部分是行動計劃——著名經濟學家傑弗裏·薩克斯提出了一項切實可行的戰略，讓看似比以往任何時候都更加分裂的美國走向新的共識：可持續發展。可持續發展是

一種強調經濟、社會和環境目標製定政策的整體方法。由於過於關注經濟增長，美國忽視了日益加劇的經濟不平等和嚴峻的環境威脅。現在，甚至經濟增長也岌岌可危。

薩克斯探討了吸引全國和政治辯論的議題，包括基礎設施、貿易協定、能源政策、政府的適當規模和作用、國家債務和收入不平等。他不僅對每個案例中起作用的力量提供了富有啟發性和通俗易懂的解釋，而且還提出了具體的政策解決方案。他的論點超越了政治癱瘓、經濟停滯和黨派偏見所導致的悲觀情緒，設計出一條個人和集體都可以實現的更光明的前進道路。在《建設新美國經濟》一書中，薩克斯展示了美國如何找到一條公平且環境可持續的經濟發展新路。

可持續發展時代 (2015)

傑弗裏·薩克斯是全球發展領域最敏銳、最獨創的分析家之一。在這部重要的新作中，他提出了一個令人信服且實用的框架，說明全球公民如何采用一種整體方式來解決看似棘手的全球性問題，即持續的極端貧困、環境惡化和政治經濟不公：可持續發展。

薩克斯為讀者、學生、活動家、環保主義者和政策製定者提供了實現可持續發展目標所需的工具、指標和實用途徑。這本書遠不止是一篇修辭練習，其目的是提供信息、啟發和推動行動。基於薩克斯擔任哥倫比亞大學地球研究所所長的十二年經曆、他為聯合國秘書長提供千年發展目標建議的十三年經曆，以及他最近在一門受歡迎的在線課程中對這些想法的介紹，《可持續發展時代》是一部具有裏程碑意義的出版物，也是對所有關心地球和全球正義的人的號召。

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《推動世界：肯尼迪總統的和平追求》（2014 年）

約翰·肯尼迪一生中最後一次偉大的競選不是他未能在世時發起的連任之戰，而是為與蘇聯實現持久和平而鬥爭。《推動世界》回顧了 1962 年 10 月至 1963 年 9 月的非凡歲月，當時肯尼迪總統運用其雄辯的口才和非凡的政治技巧，與蘇聯建立了更加和平的關係，並大幅減緩了核武器的擴散。

肯尼迪總統和蘇聯同行尼基塔·赫魯曉夫在古巴導彈危機期間領導了他們的國家，當時兩個超級大國在核深淵麵前針鋒相對。這次瀕死體驗深深震撼了兩位領導人。傑弗裏·薩克斯展示了肯尼迪如何憑借決心和非凡的技能走出導彈危機，為世界開辟一個新的、威脅較小的方向。他和赫魯曉夫一起將世界從核懸崖邊拉開，為未來的和平締造者指明了道路。

在任期的最後一年，肯尼迪發表了一係列演講，他力圖扭轉冷戰的勢頭，說服世界相信與蘇聯實現和平是可能的。1963 年 6 月 10 日，肯尼迪發表了現代總統任期內最重要的外交政策演講，這是他演講的巔峰。他反對當時盛行的悲觀主義，即認為人類注定要被無法控製的力量毀滅。肯尼迪認為，人類可以通過大膽的願景和具體而實際的措施，將新的和平帶入現實。

然而，在 1963 年夏天實現第一項措施，即《部分禁止核試驗條約》，需要的不僅僅是發表演講。肯尼迪不得不在多個方麵運用他卓越的說服天賦——麵對難以駕馭的盟友、鷹派共和黨議員、他自己政府中可疑的成員以及美國和世界公眾——來說服持懷疑態度的世界，讓世界相信超級大國之間的合作是現實且必要的。薩克斯展示了肯尼迪如何為他的願景而戰，並讓美國人民和世界看到了和平的可能性。

《感動世界》收錄了肯尼迪這一時期的演講全文以及引人注目的照片，為我們提供了一個令人震驚的全新視角來看待肯尼迪的總統任期，以及我們這個時代強有力的領導和解決問題的典範。

《文明的代價：重新喚醒美國的美德和繁榮》（2012 年）

在這本有力而充滿激情的書中，傑弗裏·薩克斯對我國的經濟弊病進行了尖銳而深刻的診斷，並緊急呼籲美國人恢複公平、誠實和遠見的核心美德

全球化是國家繁榮的基礎。薩克斯發現，兩黨和許多著名經濟學家都忽視了全局，嚴重低估了全球化的長期影響，並提出了短視的解決方案。他描述了一個受製於大捐贈者和有影響力的遊說者的政治體係，以及一種缺乏社會信任和同情的消費驅動型文化。他呼籲讀者重新樹立良好公民道德，關注經濟和彼此。最重要的是，他敦促我們每個人都接受文明的代價，這樣我們才能共同讓美國重拾其偉大的承諾。《文明的代價》是一份精妙的繁榮路線圖，它建立在美國最深刻的價值觀和對二十一世紀世界經濟的嚴格理解之上。

提高公共衛生服務的可及性和效率 (2010)

與 Nirupam Bajpai 和 Ravindra H. Dholakia 合著

本書介紹了印度最大的農村衛生計劃國家農村衛生使命 (NRHM) 的流程的係統中期評估。本研究利用了地區級健康調查 (DLHS)、全國家庭健康調查 (NFHS) 和樣本登記係統 (SRS) 的數據以及從實地調查和衛生職能部門訪談中收集的原始數據進行實證分析。它借助廣泛的實地觀察、數據分析以及衛生和營養部門專家的意見，討論了該使命的挑戰和成功，重點關注孕產婦、新生兒和兒童健康問題以及慢性病。

本書借鑒了在中央邦、北方邦和拉賈斯坦邦三個邦的實地考察中收集的數據。在評估了 NRHM 進程和迄今取得的進展後，它討論了重要的現實情況，確定了任務實施中的差距和瓶頸，並建議采取糾正措施。

本書將對所有關注衛生和公共管理問題（特別是農村衛生問題）的人都有用，例如非政府組織、政府間組織、記者、專欄作家、公共政策規劃人員、公務員和其他從業人員。

共同財富：擁擠星球的經濟學（2008 年）

在《共同財富》一書中，傑弗裏·薩克斯（Jeffrey D. Sachs）——世界上最受尊敬的經濟學家之一，也是《紐約時報》暢銷書《貧困的終結》的作者——對威脅全球和平與繁榮的環境惡化、人口快速增長和極端貧困進行了緊急評估。通過對鐵一般事實的清晰分析，薩克斯預測了這個擁擠星球將麵臨的一係列危機——並提出了一項可持續發展和國際合作計劃，以糾正這一危險的進程。世界上很少有名人像薩克斯一樣精通這一令人生畏的學科，這是他的經驗和智慧的重要成果。

《貧困、艾滋病和饑餓：打破馬拉維的貧困陷阱》（2006 年）

作者：安妮·C·康羅伊、馬爾科姆·J·布萊基、艾倫·懷特塞德和賈斯汀·C·馬萊韋齊

利用非洲大陸最貧窮的國家之一馬拉維的經驗，說明貧困帶來的挑戰和存在的變革機會。《貧困、艾滋病和饑餓》概述了一種易於複製的模式，成本適中，可以讓人們迅速擺脫貧困，並帶來可持續的收益。

《貧困的終結：我們時代的經濟可能性》（2005 年）

傑弗裏·薩克斯被《時代》雜誌譽為全球百位最具影響力的人物之一，他因在全球為危機中的經濟體提供谘詢而聞名。 《貧困的終結》現已成為該類型書籍的經典之作，它總結了三十多年的經驗，提供了獨特的見解，闡明了如何將貧困國家轉變為繁榮國家。薩克斯將生動的故事敘述與嚴謹的分析相結合，繪製了一幅清晰的世界經濟概念圖。他解釋了自己在玻利維亞、俄羅斯、印度、中國和非洲的工作，並針對世界上最貧窮的國家所麵臨的相互交織的經濟、政治、環境和社會問題提出了一套綜合解決方案。

《貧困的終結》首次出版十年後，仍然是一本不可或缺、影響深遠的作品。在這本十周年紀念版中，薩克斯撰寫了一份詳盡的新序言，評估了過去十年的進展、尚待完成的工作以及我們每個人可以如何提供幫助。他還展望了未來十五年，即 2030 年，即聯合國消除極端貧困的目標日期，並提出了新的見解和建議。

經濟改革時代的印度 (2000)

與 Ashutosh Varshney 和 Nirupaum Bajpai 合著

本書的論文由經濟學家和政治學家撰寫，不僅分析了改革對整個經濟的影響，還評估了印度 1991 年後公共財政、農業、實驗室狀況

或市場、出口、中央與各州的關係以及經濟改革與印度種姓製度和世俗主義鬥爭之間的聯係。

《波蘭向市場經濟的躍進》（1993 年）

內部人士對該國迅速向資本主義和民主轉型背後的政治事件和經濟戰略的分析

在《波蘭向市場經濟的躍進》一書中，傑弗裏·薩克斯對該國迅速向資本主義和民主轉型背後的政治事件和經濟戰略進行了內部人士的分析。薩克斯指出，經濟改革麵臨的最大挑戰主要是政治性的，而不是社會性的，甚至不是經濟性的。薩克斯回顧了波蘭自三年前開始經濟改革以來取得的顯著進展，他參與了經濟改革的設計。他討論了波蘭取得的成果——目前私營部門的就業和國內生產總值占比超過一半，對西歐的出口增長了一倍多，經濟增長和信心正在恢複——以及仍然存在的嚴重問題——高失業率、長期財政赤字、大型工業企業私有化步伐緩慢以及多黨聯合政府的脆弱性。薩克斯指出，領導力對於新民主環境下的經濟改革至關重要，西方及時的經濟援助也是如此。在波蘭的案例中，茲羅提穩定基金和兩階段債務取消對於保持改革計劃的正常進行至關重要。波蘭的例子對包括前蘇聯在內的整個地區的改革產生了強大的影響，並在很大程度上消除了人們的擔憂，即幾十年的社會主義製度使公民變得懶惰，他們會拒絕市場經濟的競爭。總的來說，薩克斯仍然堅信波蘭和該地區其他國家的經濟改革有成功的潛力。

全球經濟中的宏觀經濟學 (1993)

作者：Felipe Larraín B. 和 Jeffrey D. Sachs

本教材是為核心中級宏觀經濟學課程編寫的，該課程是所有經濟學學位課程的重要組成部分。作者強調宏觀經濟結果的多樣性，而不是單一理論，反映了宏觀經濟學中不斷變化的爭論。更重要的是，這本書反映了宏觀經濟學的一場新革命，即開放經濟方法對於研究該主題至關重要。以前占主導地位的封閉經濟方法忽略了一個事實，即對於許多國家而言，國家之間的貿易和資本流動是國民經濟的主要影響因素，甚至是主導因素。

全球聯係：世界經濟中的宏觀經濟相互依存與合作 (1991)

作者：Warwick J. McKibbin 和 Jeffrey D. Sachs

隨著 20 世紀 80 年代美國貿易平衡的迅速惡化，美國被迫通過大量借款來彌補赤字。在此過程中，美國從世界最大債權國變成了世界最大債務國，而日本和西德的貿易順差則有所增加。國際貿易流動的這種轉變對世界經濟產生了深遠的影響。

麥克吉賓和薩克斯探討了一係列涉及世界經濟宏觀經濟失衡的問題。他們通過使用一種新的世界經濟模擬模型，探索了一個國家采取的政策行動如何影響其他國家之間的貿易流動和宏觀經濟模式。作者指出，20 世紀 80 年代的主要宏觀經濟特征可以用主要經濟體貨幣和財政政策的轉變以及油價變化導致的供應衝擊來解釋。

除了展示如何理解全球宏觀經濟經驗外，他們還關注了許多當前的政策問題，包括減少全球貿易失衡、美國財政整頓的後果、石油價格衝擊的影響、日本和德國財政支出增加對美國經濟的影響、主要貨幣之間匯率目標的影響以及主要經濟體之間宏觀經濟政策協調加強的收益。在一些情況下，他們的結論與許多傳統觀點的基礎截然不同。作者還分析了工業經濟體政策製定者之間互動的重要性，並最後再次強調美國政界人士和政策專家需要認識到，美國的宏觀經濟結果現在在很大程度上取決於國外事件。

全球滯脹經濟學 (1985)

作者：邁克爾·布魯諾和傑弗裏·薩克斯

本書闡述了滯脹的理論和比較實證分析，滯脹是過去十五年困擾發達工業國家的高失業率、緩慢增長和高通脹的奇特組合。

作者首先構建了一個小型宏觀經濟模型，該模型全麵考慮了

在單一經濟體和多經濟體的背景下，總需求和供應力量在決定產出、就業和價格水平方麵的作用。然後，他們應用該模型來了解工業國家在失業、通貨膨脹、生產率和投資增長方麵的比較表現。他們令人信服地指出，這一時期主要經濟體的衰退是 20 世紀 70 年代的供應衝擊造成的，例如歐佩克兩次大幅提高石油價格，以及隨之而來的政策引發的通脹壓力導致的需求下降。他們的分析與類似研究有顯著不同，因為它特別考慮了不同經濟體勞動力市場的製度差異。這有助於解釋美國和歐洲不同的調整情況。

邁克爾·布魯諾和傑弗裏·薩克斯對需求管理和收入政策的組合提出了幾項重要建議，這些政策對於對抗個別國家的滯脹以及協調主要工業國家之間的宏觀經濟政策是必不可少的。

Books of Professor Jeffrey Sachs 

https://www.jeffsachs.org/books
Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022)
The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, comprise an ambitious and sweeping agenda that unites economic, social, and environmental aims. What resources do the world’s religious and secular traditions offer in support of these objectives? Which principles do these traditions hold in common, and how can these shared values help advance global goals?

This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts. Drawing on more than two years of close-knit discussions convened by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, it offers an extensive and inclusive vision of how to promote human flourishing. The book features theological, philosophical, and ethical deliberations of great diversity and depth on the challenges of sustainable development, addressing questions of poverty, environmental justice, peace, conflict, and the future of work. It includes consensus statements on the moral imperatives of sustainable development, introductions to seven major religious traditions and their conceptions of the common good, and thematic reflections. Wide-ranging and urgent, this book represents a major contribution to interreligious dialogue and to the articulation of a shared global ethics.

The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020)

Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century.

Sachs takes readers through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and ending with reflections on today’s globalization. Along the way, he considers how the interplay of geography, technology, and institutions influenced the Neolithic revolution; the role of the horse in the emergence of empires; the spread of large land-based empires in the classical age; the rise of global empires after the opening of sea routes from Europe to Asia and the Americas; and the industrial age. The dynamics of these past waves, Sachs demonstrates, offer fresh perspective on the ongoing processes taking place in our own time—a globalization based on digital technologies. Sachs emphasizes the need for new methods of international governance and cooperation to prevent conflicts and to achieve economic, social, and environmental objectives aligned with sustainable development. The Ages of Globalization is a vital book for all readers aiming to make sense of our rapidly changing world.

A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018)

The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward nationalism and “America first” unilateralism in foreign policy will not make America great. Instead, it represents the abdication of our responsibilities in the face of severe environmental threats, political upheaval, mass migration, and other global challenges.

In this incisive and forceful book, Jeffrey D. Sachs provides the blueprint for a new foreign policy that embraces global cooperation, international law, and aspirations for worldwide prosperity—not nationalism and gauzy dreams of past glory. He argues that America’s approach to the world must shift from military might and wars of choice to a commitment to shared objectives of sustainable development. Our pursuit of primacy has embroiled us in unwise and unwinnable wars, and it is time to shift from making war to making peace and time to embrace the opportunities that international cooperation offers. A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the “America first” mindset and the possibilities for a new way forward, proposing timely and achievable plans to foster global economic growth, reconfigure the United Nations for the twenty-first century, and build a multipolar world that is prosperous, peaceful, fair, and resilient.

Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable (2017)

In this passionate and powerful book—part manifesto, part plan of action—the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus: sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach that emphasizes economic, social, and environmental objectives in shaping policy. In focusing too much on economic growth, the United States has neglected rising economic inequality and dire environmental threats. Now, even growth is imperiled.

Sachs explores issues that have captivated the nation and political debate, including infrastructure, trade deals, energy policy, the proper size and role of government, the national debt, and income inequality. Not only does he provide illuminating and accessible explanations of the forces at work in each case, but he also presents specific policy solutions. His argument rises above the pessimism born of political paralysis, economic stagnation, and partisanship to devise a brighter way forward, achievable both individually and collectively. In Building the New American Economy, Sachs shows how the United States can find a path to renewed economic progress that is fair and environmentally sustainable.

The Age of Sustainable Development (2015)

Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development.

Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metrics, and practical pathways they need to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Far more than a rhetorical exercise, this book is designed to inform, inspire, and spur action. Based on Sachs's twelve years as director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, his thirteen years advising the United Nations secretary-general on the Millennium Development Goals, and his recent presentation of these ideas in a popular online course, The Age of Sustainable Development is a landmark publication and clarion call for all who care about our planet and global justice.

Visit our supplemental materials page for additional teaching materials for students and instructors, including chapter summaries, key concepts, problem sets, and slides.

To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace (2014)

The last great campaign of John F. Kennedy’s life was not the battle for reelection 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 remarkable political skills to establish more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union and a dramatic slowdown in the proliferation of nuclear arms.

Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, led their nations during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the two superpowers came eyeball to eyeball at the nuclear abyss. This near-death experience shook both leaders deeply. Jeffrey D. Sachs shows how Kennedy emerged from the Missile crisis with the determination and prodigious skills to forge a new and less threatening direction for the world. Together, he and Khrushchev would pull the world away from the nuclear precipice, charting a path for future peacemakers to follow.

During his final year in office, Kennedy gave a series of speeches in which he pushed back against the momentum of the Cold War to persuade the world that peace with the Soviets was possible. The oratorical high point came on June 10, 1963, when Kennedy delivered the most important foreign policy speech of the modern presidency. He argued against the prevailing pessimism that viewed humanity as doomed by forces beyond its control. Mankind, argued Kennedy, could bring a new peace into reality through a bold vision combined with concrete and practical measures.

Achieving the first of those measures in the summer of 1963, the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, required more than just speechmaking, however. Kennedy had to use his great gifts of persuasion on multiple fronts—with fractious allies, hawkish Republican congressmen, dubious members of his own administration, and the American and world public—to persuade a skeptical world that cooperation between the superpowers was realistic and necessary. Sachs shows how Kennedy campaigned for his vision and opened the eyes of the American people and the world to the possibilities of peace.

Featuring the full text of JFK’s speeches from this period, as well as striking photographs, To Move the World gives us a startlingly fresh perspective on Kennedy’s presidency and a model for strong leadership and problem solving in our time.

The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity (2012)

In this forceful and impassioned book, Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills, and an urgent call for Americans to restore the core virtues of fairness, honesty, and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity. Sachs finds that both political parties—and many leading economists—have missed the big picture, profoundly underestimating globalization’s long-term effects and offering shortsighted solutions. He describes a political system that is beholden to big donors and influential lobbyists and a consumption-driven culture that suffers shortfalls of social trust and compassion. He bids readers to reclaim the virtues of good citizenship and mindfulness toward the economy and each one another. Most important, he urges each of us to accept the price of civilization, so that together we restore America to its great promise. The Price of Civilization is a masterly road map for prosperity, founded on America’s deepest values and on a rigorous understanding of the twenty-first-century world economy.

Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services (2010)

with Nirupam Bajpai and Ravindra H. Dholakia

This book presents a systematic mid-term evaluation of the processes of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), India's biggest rural health program. Data from District Level Health Surveys (DLHS), National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) and Sample Registration System (SRS) as well as primary data collected from field surveys and interviews with health functionaries have been utilized for undertaking empirical analysis in the study. It discusses the challenges and successes of the Mission with the help of extensive field observations, data analysis, and inputs from experts on health and nutrition sectors focusing on maternal, newborn, and child health issues and chronic diseases.

The book draws from data collected in field visits in the three states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan. After assessing the NRHM processes and progress achieved so far, it discusses important ground realities, identifies the gaps and bottlenecks in the implementation of the Mission and recommends corrective actions.

The book will be useful for all those concerned with the issue of health and public administration in general and rural health in particular, such as, NGOs, IGOs, journalists, columnists, public policy planners, civil servants, and other practitioners.

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008)

In Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world’s most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty– offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity. Through crystalline examination of hard facts, Sachs predicts the cascade of crises that awaits this crowded planet-and presents a program of sustainable development and international cooperation that will correct this dangerous course. Few luminaries anywhere on the planet are as schooled in this daunting subject as Sachs, and this is the vital product of his experience and wisdom.

Poverty, AIDS and Hunger: Breaking the Poverty Trap in Malawi (2006)

with Anne C. Conroy, Malcolm J. Blackie, Alan Whiteside, and Justin C. Malewezi

Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist. Poverty, AIDS and Hunger outlines an easily-replicable model, at modest cost, that could lift people quickly out of poverty, with sustainable benefits.

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (2005)

Hailed by Time as one of the world’s hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills more than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones. Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy. Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world’s poorest countries.

Ten years after its initial publication, The End of Poverty remains an indispensible and influential work. In this 10th anniversary edition, Sachs presents an extensive new foreword assessing the progress of the past decade, the work that remains to be done, and how each of us can help. He also looks ahead across the next fifteen years to 2030, the United Nations’ target date for ending extreme poverty, offering new insights and recommendations.

India in the Era of Economic Reforms (2000)

With Ashutosh Varshney and Nirupaum Bajpai

Written by economists and political scientists, the essays in this volume not only analyze the impact of reforms on the economy as a whole, but also assess the state of India's post-1991 public finances, agriculture, labor markets, exports, center-state relations and the connection of economic reforms with India's battle over caste and secularism.

Poland’s Jump to the Market Economy (1993)

An insider's analysis of the political events and economic strategy behind the country's swift transition to capitalism and democracy

In Poland's Jump to the Market Economy, Jeffrey Sachs provides an insider's analysis of the political events and economic strategy behind the country's 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 Poland's 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 West's timely economic assistance. In Poland's case, the Zloty Stabilization Fund and the two-stage debt cancellation have been essential to keeping the reform program on track. Poland's 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.

Macroeconomics in the Global Economy (1993)

By Felipe Larraín B. and Jeffrey D. Sachs

This textbook is written for the core intermediate macroeconomics course which forms an essential part of all economics degrees. The authors reflect the continually changing debate in macroeconomics by stressing the great variety of possible macroeconomic outcomes, rather than a single theory. More importantly the book reflects a new revolution in macroeconomics that an open economy approach is essential to the study of the subject. The previously ascendant closed economy approaches have ignored the fact that, for many countries, trade and capital flows between countries are a dominant, if not the dominant influence on the national economy.

Global Linkages: Macroeconomic Interdependence and Cooperation in the World Economy (1991)

by Warwick J. McKibbin and Jeffrey D. Sachs

With the rapid deterioration of the U.S. trade balance in the 1980s, the United States was forced to finance deficits by borrowing heavily from the rest of the world. In doing so, the United States went from being the world’s largest creditor country to the world’s largest debtor, while Japan and West Germany experienced a rise in trade surpluses. Such a shift in international trade flows has had profound effects on the world economy.

McKibbin and Sachs address a range of issues involving macroeconomic imbalances in the world economy. Through the use of a new simulation model of the world economy they explore how policy actions undertaken in one country affect the trade flows and macroeconomic patterns among the other counties. The authors show that key macroeconomic features of the 1980s can be explained by shifts in monetary and fiscal policies in the major economies and by supply shocks due to changes in oil prices.

In addition to showing how the global macroeconomic experience can be understood, they focus on a number of current policy issues, including the reduction of global trade imbalances, the consequences of U.S. fiscal consolidation, the effects of an oil price shock, the implications for the U.S. economy of increases in Japanese and German fiscal spending, the effects of targeting exchange rates among the major currencies, and the gains of increased coordination of macroeconomic politics among the major economies. In several cases, their conclusions are shown to be quite different from those that form the basis of many conventional views. The authors also analyze the importance of interaction between policymakers in industrial economies and conclude by reemphasizing the need for U.S. politicians and policy experts to recognize that macroeconomic results in the U.S. now depend heavily on events abroad.

Economics of Worldwide Stagflation (1985)

by Michael Bruno and Jeffrey D. Sachs

This book sets forth both a theory and a comparative empirical analysis of stagflation, that peculiar combination of high unemployment, slow growth, and spurts of high inflation bedeviling the advanced industrial nations during the past fifteen years.

The authors first construct a small macroeconomic model that takes full account of aggregate demand and supply forces in the determination of output, employment, and the price level, in both a single-economy and a multi-economy setting. They then apply the model to provide an understanding of comparative performance of industrial countries in the areas of unemployment, inflation, productivity, and investment growth. They argue convincingly that the decay of the major economies during this period resulted from the supply shocks of the 1970s, such as the two major OPEC oil-price increases, and from the consequent policy-induced decrease in demand in response to inflationary pressures. Their analysis differs markedly from similar studies in that it takes specific account of institutional differences in the labor markets of the various economies. This helps to explain in particular the divergent adjustment profiles of the United States and Europe.

Michael Bruno and Jeffrey D. Sachs make several key recommendations for the mix of demand management and incomes policies necessary to combat stagflation in individual countries as well as for the coordination of macroeconomic policies among the major industrial nations.