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    Is the Planet Full? Hardcover – Illustrated, 15 May 2014

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    What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century?

    While it is common to hear about the problems of overpopulation, might there be unexplored benefits of increasing numbers of people in the world? How can we both consider and harness the potential benefits brought by a healthier, wealthier and larger population? May more people mean more scientists to discover how our world works, more inventors and thinkers to help solve the world's problems, more skilled people to put these ideas into practice?

    In this book, leading academics with a wide range of expertise in demography, philosophy, biology, climate science, economics and environmental sustainability explore the contexts, costs and benefits of a burgeoning population on our economic, social and environmental systems.
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    3. Edition
      Illustrated
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      OUP Oxford
    5. Publication date
      15 May 2014
    6. Language
      English
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      24.38 x 2.29 x 17.02 cm
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    Its [the book's] strengths lie in collecting together the diverse opinions of different thought leaders to provide a holistic interdisciplinary discourse around how we treat the planet and each other. A noteworthy overview of how we manage global issues, Is the Planet Full? is recommended for anyone interested in understanding what an increasing global population means to our present and future. ― Rebecca Jarvis, London School of Economics and Political Science blog,

    About the Author

    Ian Goldin is the Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development at Oxford University. From 2001 to 2006 he was at the World Bank, first as Director of Policy and then as Vice President. Previously, he was advisor to President Mandela and Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa. He has been knighted by the French Government. Professor Goldin has published over fifty articles and eighteen books, including Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped our World and Will Define our Future (Princeton University Press, 2011), Globalization for Development: Meeting New Challenges (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing and what we can do about it (Oxford University Press, 2013).

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    • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0199677778
    • Publisher ‏ : ‎ OUP Oxford
    • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 15 May 2014
    • Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
    • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    • Print length ‏ : ‎ 260 pages
    • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780199677771
    • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199677771
    • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 567 g
    • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 24.38 x 2.29 x 17.02 cm
    • Best Sellers Rank: 3,719,846 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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    Ian Goldin is Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford, Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford University, was the founding Director of Oxford University’s Oxford Martin School, and leads its research programmes on Technological and Economic Change, Future of Work and Future of Development.

    He has an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a MA and Doctorate from the University of Oxford.

    From 1996 to 2001, he was chief executive and managing director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and at that time also served as an adviser to President Nelson Mandela.

    From 2001 to 2006 Ian was Vice President of the World Bank and the Group’s Director of Policy and Special Representative at the United Nations. Previously, Ian served as Principal Economist at the EBRD and the Director of Programmes at the OECD Development Centre.

    He has been knighted by the French Government and received numerous awards. He has published over 60 journal articles and 23 books. His most recent is Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World. His previous books include Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years, Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance and The Butterfly Defect: Why Globalization Creates Systemic Risks and What to Do, in which he predicted that a pandemic was the most likely cause of the next financial crisis. Other books include Development: A Very Short Introduction; and Is the Planet Full?. He has authored and presented three BBC Documentary Series After The Crash; Will AI Kill Development? and The Pandemic that Changed the World. He has provided advisory services to the IMF, UN, EU, OECD and has served as a non-executive Director on six globally listed companies. Ian is an acclaimed speaker at TED, Google Zeitgeist, WEF and other meetings and is Chair of the core-econ.org initiative to transform economics.

    His twitter address is @ian_goldin and website https://iangoldin.org/.

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      1.0 out of 5 stars More people, more scientists?
      Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2022
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      In Goldin repeats the long-claimed idea that promoting human population growth will give us more highly educated and skilled people to solve all our problems. But the extra people (the unwanted births) will sadly live in great poverty with no chance of that kind of education. Goldin ignores the human costs of unwanted pregnancies: dangerous abortions, maternal mortality, children born underweight and sometimes stunted or otherwise disabled. We need a more human approach to population.
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