The Idealist

The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

First Anchor Books edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Bloomberg  Forbes  The Spectator

Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award


In 2006, Jeffrey Sachs-celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential bestseller The End of Poverty- launched the Millennium Villages Project, a daring, $120-million experiment designed to test his theories about ending poverty. For six years, Nina Munk shadowed Sachs on his trips to Africa, listened in on conversations with heads-of-state and humanitarian organizations, and immersed herself in the lives of people in two remote African villages.  Munk came to understand the real-life issues that challenge Sachs's formula for ending global poverty. The Idealist is the profound and moving story of what happens when the abstract theories of a brilliant, driven man meet the realities of human life.

Book information

ISBN: 9780767929424
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Anchor Books
Pub date:
Edition: First Anchor Books edition
DEWEY: 362.5526
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 268g
Height: 205mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 15mm