I have a review of Jeffrey Sachs' Commonwealth in today's Washington Post.  Here's the punchline:  In laying out this case, Sachs makes a significant contribution to a peculiar genre of nonfiction: the Great Global Scheme. Economists ranging from Hernando de Soto to Joseph Stiglitz have written in this genre, in which (typically) a great economist diagnoses the world's ills,...

This article has been archived. To continue reading, you must first log in. Note: If you created your account before June 2009 you may need to create a new one.

Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Read More