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Fiona Smith, The Willing World: Shaping and Sharing a Sustainable Global Prosperity. By JAMES BACCHUS, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. ISBN 9781108428217, 515pp, Journal of International Economic Law, Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2019, Pages 763–766, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgz043
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Are you one of the willing?
Will you help save millions of people from suffering poverty and food insecurity? Will you fight to save our planet from the devastating effects caused by climate change? Will you work to construct necessary laws and institutions to achieve sustainable development that benefit everyone by 2030? Will you join with others working now to find the ‘right way to help make life better for billions of people on our imperilled planet?’1
In Willing World, James Bacchus describes himself as one of the ‘willing’: the people willing to work towards achieving sustainable development in order to transform global society for the better.2 The book is a manifesto for the work of the willing: over eighteen chapters, sub-divided into three parts, the book scopes out the willing’s objectives (Part 1); it goes on to acknowledge their achievements so far (Part II); and finally, it sets out the work that must be undertaken (Part III). In essence, this is a book about the complex relationship between the economy and the environment, and how the interaction between the two should be resolved.