Apocalypse Is Nigh

January 14, 2012

This books content is pompous, and mostly wrong. Its style is by and large turgid with some passable chapters. The opportunity for a reviewer to be obnoxious and correct at the same time is rare: this is a bad book.

Jeffrey Sachs is obsessed with messianic visions. The global economic problems on the back of a financial crisis that started in 2007-08 are pretty ghastly. But this is hardly the first or the last of such crises. The world was in much worse shape in 1930 and possibly in 1980.

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