Jeffrey D Sachs' Top Book Recommendations

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Ethics for the New Millennium

Dalai Lama

4.4

In a difficult, uncertain time, it takes a person of great courage, such as the Dalai Lama, to give us hope. Regardless of the violence and cynicism we see on television and read about in the news, there is an argument to be made for basic human goodness. The number of people who spend their lives engaged in violence and dishonesty is tiny compared to the vast majority who would wish others only w

Recommended by Jeffrey D Sachs.

Jeffrey D Sachs

Yes, I think it is probably right to start with the new millennium of which we have now completed the first decade. A lot of the writing that I am talking about is focused on the idea that we need to do something new in our new millennium and our new century. The Millennium Development Goals are the most specific manifestation of that idea, the objective of really reaching a new level and a new understanding. The Dalai Lama wrote this book not specifically about the Millennium Development Goals but very much in the spirit of the need to create a new global understanding and global ethic, and to make what is now a global society work. [source]

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We the Peoples: The Nobel Lecture Given by the 2001 Nobel Peace Laureate Kofi Annan

Kofi Annan and David Finn

4.2

The Nobel lecture given by the 2001 Nobel Peace Laureate Kofi Annan provides a plan and a hope for the future.

Recommended by Jeffrey D Sachs.

Jeffrey D Sachs

We the Peoples is another great document by another great individual, Kofi Annan. It is the document that the former Secretary-General put before the world’s leaders at the start of the millennium. It is a powerful statement not only about the kind of world that we want to live in but that we can build. So it is a far-reaching document about economic development, human rights, political freedom, mutual respect and environmental sustainability. [source]

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Manifest Globales Wirtschaftsethos Konsequenzen Und Herausforderungen Für Die Weltwirtschaft ; Deutsch/Englisch = Manifesto Global Economic Ethic

Hans Küng

3.5

Recommended by Jeffrey D Sachs.

Jeffrey D Sachs

Hans Küng is a theologian who is one of the world’s leading theological scholars and someone who I greatly admire. Once again, it really is about the core idea that we are living in a global society. We are not just a collection of individual nations or still less individual communities but we are a truly interconnected global society. [source]

American Political Speeches

Terry Golway, Richard Beeman

4.2

A selection of speeches by the most inspiring and persuasive orators in American history

Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution, draws together the great texts of American civic life to create a timely and inf

Recommended by Jeffrey D Sachs.

Jeffrey D Sachs

This is my favourite speech from President Kennedy so I think it is always worth reading! But it is a very, very important speech in our history because of its demonstration of statecraft in the finest and most important way. The speech was given in the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The world was perilously close to nuclear war and we needed an active approach to break through. So President Kennedy decided he needed to do something as leader of the United States and as a human being to bring the world back from the abyss, and the approach that he took was to try to negotiate a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union. [source]

The End of Poverty

Jeffrey Sachs

4.0

The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists

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

Recommended by Bill Gates, Gretchen Peters, Jeffrey D Sachs, and 1 others.

Jeffrey D Sachs

The book is an attempt to put forward this proposition that we have in our hands now the means to end extreme poverty within our generation. [source]

Bill Gates

CEO/Microsoft

On Bill Gates's reading list in 2011. [source]

Gretchen Peters

Jeffrey Sachs gives a fascinating and very basic new way of looking at development. Essentially, we all benefit when the poorest people are better off. [source]