Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

人類未來大預言 創造擁擠地球上的共同繁榮

人類已經來到存亡絕續的關頭。當今世界經濟面臨的各種危機，幾乎全都源自環境問題：氣候變遷、環境污染、水資源短缺、動物滅絕、可耕地減少、海中生物耗竭、石油資源緊縮、難以消除的赤貧現象、全球流行病的威脅，以及嚴重的財富不均。

除非我們了解這些問題之間全都存在因果關係，否則就不可能解決得了其中任何一項問題。全球首屈一指的經濟學家、哥倫比亞大學地球研究所主任傑佛瑞．薩克斯，從整體的角度整合各學科的研究，為所有問題尋求實際的解決方案。

要了解氣候變遷、抗暖化科技、綠能科技、水資源變化、生物多樣性、人口變遷到反恐行動等全球重要議題的最新演變，本書都有詳盡剖析，並以具有說服力的計畫主張全球合作共創繁榮無須耗費鉅資就可達成，為人類指出了一條希望之路。本書是所有要擘畫未來的領導人不可不讀的參考書。

Jeffrey D. Sachs 繼The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time之後，為新貧時代的全球經濟把脈，找出一般大眾對於當前經濟前景的新認知與應對知道。

本書中譯本《66億人的共同繁榮：破解擁擠地球的經濟難題》由「天下雜誌」出版。

From one of the world’s greatest economic minds, author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty, a clear and vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity and an augury of the global economic collapse that lies ahead if we don’t follow it.

The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, one that will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life. The changes will be deeper than a rebalancing of economics and politics among different parts of the world; the very idea of competing nation-states scrambling for power, resources, and markets will in some crucial respects become passe. The only question is how bad it will have to get before we face the unavoidable. We will have to learn on a global scale some of the hard lessons that successful societies have gradually and grudgingly learned within national borders: that there must be common ground between rich and poor, among competing ethnic groups, and between society and nature. The central theme of Jeffrey Sachs’s new book is that we need a new economic paradigm-global, inclusive, cooperative, environmentally aware, science-based-because we are running up against the realities of a crowded planet. The alternative is a worldwide economic collapse of unprecedented severity. Prosperity will have to be sustained through more cooperative processes, relying as much on public policy as on market forces to spread technology, address the needs of the poor, and to husband threatened resources of water, air, energy, land, and biodiversity. The ”soft issues” of the environment, public health, and population will become the hard issues of geopolitics. New forms of global politics will in important ways replace capital-city-dominated national diplomacy and intrigue. National governments, even the U.S., will become much weaker actors as scientific networks and socially responsible investors and foundations become the more powerful actors.

If we do the right things, there is room for all on the planet. We can achieve the four key goals of a global society: prosperity for all, the end of extreme poverty, stabilization of the global population, and environmental sustainability. These are not utopian goals or pipedreams, yet they are far from automatic. Indeed, we are not on a successful trajectory now to achieve these goals. Common Wealth points the way to the course correction we must embrace for the sake of our common future.

作者簡介

傑佛瑞．薩克斯（Jeffrey D. Sachs）

美國當代最重要的經濟學家，也是當代經濟學界的傳奇人物。1983年，年僅二十八歲即獲聘為哈佛大學終身職教授。而後轉聘哥倫比亞大學地球研究所主任，由於參與許多國家的經濟發展顧問，他的足跡遍及一百多國，造就了他在發展經濟學上的崇高地位。他也是當代經濟學界少有的熱血之士，以擔任世界各國政府及國際組織的經濟顧問而享譽國際。於聯合國倡導消減貧窮的千禧年計畫中，擔任秘書長安南的高級顧問。

薩克斯是聯合國貧困問題研究專家，全球化倡導者，也是促成G8會議與英國政府非洲計畫的主要推手。被U2合唱團主唱波諾（Bono）盛讚為「人民的經濟學家」，被他的對手、紐約大學的William Easterly描述為「世界上最偉大的經濟改革者」。著有《終結貧窮：如何在我們有生之年做到》

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. He is internationally renowned for his work as an economic adviser to governments around the world.