October 20, 2006

The Intellectual Territory

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

Jeffrey D. Sachs is an international economist who directs the United Nations' Millennium Project, which is working to eradicate hunger and disease around the world by 2015. He is also director of an interdisciplinary research center on sustainability at Columbia University, called the Earth Institute. His latest book, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Penguin Press, 2005), features a foreword by his friend and fellow antipoverty activist Bono, lead singer of

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