The End of Poverty

　　Marrying vivid eyewitness storytelling with concrete analysis, Jeffrey Sachs provides a conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall, explaining why wealth and poverty have diverged and evolved as they have and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. Sachs plunges into the messy re... (展开全部) 　　Marrying vivid eyewitness storytelling with concrete analysis, Jeffrey Sachs provides a conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall, explaining why wealth and poverty have diverged and evolved as they have and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. Sachs plunges into the messy realities of economies, leading his readers through his work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Africa, and concludes with an integrated set of solutions to the tangled economic, political, environmental, and social issues that most frequently hold societies back.　　

　　舉世聞名的本書作者自1980年代聲譽鶴起，其經濟策略不僅振興了當時的全球經濟，多年以來更帶來諸多正面效應，作者現為美國哥倫比亞大學﹝Columbia University﹞地球研究所﹝The Earth Institute﹞的院長和教授，並且擔任聯合國的經濟特別顧問，專司主持千憘年計畫(UN Millennium Project)， 紐約時報﹝New York Times﹞稱其為現今世界最重要的經濟學家。
　　本書為作者主持聯合國千憘年計畫(UN Millennium Project)的觀察研究成果，此計畫的主旨在於研究降低疾病、貧困、軍事衝突和環境破壞的可能性，文中以系統性的論述剖析此一計畫的觀點和理念。全書包括18個章節，根據作者走訪世界各國的第一手研究與觀察而成，透過詳述數個其曾執行的小規模計畫的經驗，佐以統計資料和理論分析，作者清楚地闡釋自己的經濟概念，總體來說，文中傳達出對全球化經濟將帶來世界和平和人類共榮的遠景乃抱持著樂觀的態度，認為只要擁有完善的基本建設和人力資源，市場經濟就能夠在全球化的過程中發揮正面效用，藉此作者針砭了當代財富分配不均的經濟現況，描述分析隱藏在全球化經濟榮景背後的「極端貧困﹝extreme poverty﹞」所帶來的全球性經濟危機，並且進一步提出可供借鏡的經驗和建議。

感觉真好	来自星辰		2008-02-04