From the author of the bestseller The End of Poverty, a 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.
Jeffrey D. Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the Millennium Development Goals. He is internationally renowned for his work as an economic adviser to governments and international organizations around the world. Ira Jackson is the dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. At the age of 26, he became chief of staff to Boston Mayor Kevin White. He later became senior associate dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Jackson left the Kennedy School to become Commissioner of Revenue for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where he was credited with being one of the architects of the state's "economic miracle." Later, he served as executive vice president of Bank Boston for a dozen years. Mr. Jackson then returned to Harvard as the director of its Center for Business and Government at the Kennedy School and later became the first president of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation in Atlanta. Prior to coming to Claremont, he was president and CEO of the Arizona State University Foundation. He is the co-author, with Jane Nelson, of Profits with Principles: Seven Strategies for Delivering Value with Values. www.druckerinstitute.com