{"product_id":"9781781683309","title":"Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid","description":"An investigation of Sachs’s schizophrenic career, and the worldwide havoc he has caused.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Sachs is a man with many faces. A celebrated economist and special advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, he is also no stranger to the world of celebrity, accompanying Bono, Madonna and Angelina Jolie on high-profile trips to Africa. Once notorious as the progenitor of a brutal form of free market engineering called ‘shock therapy’, Sachs now positions himself as a voice of progressivism, condemning the ‘1 per cent’ and promoting his solution to extreme poverty through the Millennium Villages Project.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppearances can be deceiving. \u003ci\u003eJeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr Shock and Mr Aid \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of an evangelical development expert who poses as saviour of the Third World while opening vulnerable nations to economic exploitation. Based on documentary research and on-the-ground investigation, Jeffrey Sachs exposes Mr Aid as no more than a new, more human face of Dr Shock.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114477273328,"sku":"9781781683309","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781781683309_p0.jpg?v=1763717259","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781781683309","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}