Books by Jeffrey D. Sachs

2. Jeffrey D. Sachs, The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions .  This book is a series of lectures, based on Sachs’s earlier work on economic geography and development, yet somehow with a vaguely Yuval Harari sort of glow.  Some parts are a good introduction to the earlier work of Sachs, other parts are pitched a bit too low or too generally.  It is strange to see chapter subheadings such as “Thalassocracy and Tellurocracy.”  As an economist , I still maintain that Sach...