The Ages of Globalization, Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Ages of Globalization, Jeffrey D. Sachs
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The Ages of Globalization
Geography, Technology, and Institutions

Author: Jeffrey D. Sachs

Narrator: Steve Menasche

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/02/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale.

Sachs takes listeners through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and ending with reflections on today's globalization. Along the way, he considers how the interplay of geography, technology, and institutions influenced the Neolithic revolution; the role of the horse in the emergence of empires; the spread of large land-based empires in the classical age; the rise of global empires after the opening of sea routes from Europe to Asia and the Americas; and the industrial age. The dynamics of these past waves, Sachs demonstrates, offer fresh perspective on the ongoing processes taking place in our own time—a globalization based on digital technologies. Sachs emphasizes the need for new methods of international governance and cooperation to prevent conflicts and to achieve economic, social, and environmental objectives aligned with sustainable development. The Ages of Globalization is a vital book for all listeners aiming to make sense of our rapidly changing world.

About Jeffrey D. Sachs

Jeffrey D. Sachs is university professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is also director of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and has been advisor to three UN secretaries-general. He is a New York Times bestselling author, and his books include The Age of Sustainable Development, Building the New American Economy, and A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kimba on January 03, 2020

In this book economist Prof.Jeffrey D. Sachs outlines the dynamics of six previous ages of globalization (The Paleolithic Age, 70,000–10,000 BCE; The Neolithic Age, 10,000–3000 BCE, The Equestrian Age, 3000–1000 BCE, The Classical Age, 1000 BCE–1500 CE, The Ocean Age, 1500–1800, and the Industrial A......more

Goodreads review by Dan on August 13, 2020

Sort of like a 200 page wikipedia article on the history of the world. So I really liked it. He divides the history of globalization into seven ages: paleolithic, neolithic, equestrian, classical, ocean, industrial, digital. It was cool learning about the Lucky Latitudes across Eurasia (25-45 degree......more

Goodreads review by Bob on August 03, 2020

Summary: A study of seven ages of globalization, in which geography, technology, and institutions result in scale-enlarging transformations with global impacts. Jeffrey Sachs is one of those big picture thinkers one needs when tempted to focus in the minutiae of life. I first came across this in The......more

Goodreads review by Carlos on October 22, 2020

This is a great book. Sachs is nothing if not erudite, and to give a useful history of our species in approx 220 pages is a remarkable accomplishment. You get a bit of history, a bit of economics, a bit of politics, a bit of science, a bit of philosophy. Sachs's basic framework of the stages of glob......more

Goodreads review by Levent on November 23, 2020

I would have expected more from Jeffrey Sachs. This is a summary of the lecture notes on basic world history and a bit on sustainability at the end. As summary, it is tidy, but as a book from one of the major players in the field of sustainability, it lacks insight.......more