Ignacy Sachs
Encyclopedia
Poland
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, naturalized French
France
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economist. He is also said to be an ecosocioeconomist, due to his ideas about development
Economic development
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as a combination of economic growth, equalitarian increase in social well-being
Quality of life
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and environmental preservation. The term ecosocioeconomy was created by Karl William Kapp
Karl William Kapp
Karl William Kapp was a German-American economist, one of the founders of Ecological economics and one of the leading 20th century institutional economists...
, a German economist and one of the authors who inspired the so-called political economy
Political economy
Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...
during the 1970s.
Professor Sachs taught at University of Paris 12. Now Sachs is a invited researcher in the Institut of Advanced Studies in University of São Paulo
University of São Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian university and one of the country's most prestigious...
- he lived in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
between 1941 and 1953 as a war refugee. He was one of the rare Jews
Jews
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who have returned to Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
(before his move to France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
) after the World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
; he did it due to his communist convictions.
Works published in Brazil and about Brazil
- Capitalismo de Estado e Subdesenvolvimento: Padrões de setor público em economias subdesenvolvidas. Petrópolis : Vozes. 1969.
- Ecodesenvolvimento : crescer sem destruir. Trans. E. Araujo. - São Paulo: Vértice, 1981.
- Espaços, tempos e estratégias do desenvolvimento. São Paulo: Vértice. 1986.
- Histoire. culture et styles de développement : Brésil et Inde -esquisse de comparaison under the assessment of C. Comeliau and I. Sachs. L'Harmattan, UNESCO/CENTRAL, Paris.
- Extractivismo na Amazônia brasileira: perspectivas sobre o desenvolvimento regional. Ed. M. Cllisener-Godt and Ignacy Sachs. -Paris: UNESCO, 1994; -96 pp. (Compêndio MAB ; 18)
- Estratégias de transição para o século XXI: desenvolvimento e meio ambiente. Prologue: M. F. Strong ; trans. Magda Lopes. São Paulo: Studio Nobel : Fundação do desenvolvimento administrativo (FUNDAP), 1993.
- Brazilian Perspectives on Sustainable Development of the Amazon Region. Ed. M. Clüsener-Godt and I. Sachs. UNESCO/The Parthenon Publishing Group, Paris-New York, 1995.
- Rumo à Ecossocioeconomia - teoria e prática do desenvolvimento. São Paulo: Cortez Editora, 2007.
Works about Ignacy Sachs
- Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente no Brasil - A contribuição de Ignacy Sachs. Organizacão de Paulo Freire Vieira. Mauricio Andres Ribeiro. Roberto Messias Franco, Renato Caporali Cordeiro. Editora Palotti/APED. Florianópolis. 1998.
- Pour aborder le XXIème siècle avec le développement durable, textes édités par Solange Passaris et Krystyna Vinaver. Economies et Sociétés - Cahiers de l'ISMEA, tome xxxn. n° 1/1998. Serie "Développement, croissance et progrès", Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, Grenoble.
Autobiography
- La troisième rive. Editions Bourin : Paris. 2008.
Published in Brazil as A Terciera Margem by Companhia Das Letras in 2009.
This book is an autobiography of Ignacy Sachs and Viola Sachs
Viola Sachs
Viola Sachs was a Professor of American Literature at "Université de Paris VIII, France".-Works:As a specialist of Herman Melville, she conducted research and studies for the decoding of Melville's master works. She created the Laboratory of Research on American "Imaginaire" in the early eighties...
. Its title is inspired on a short story
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
written by Guimarães Rosa.
External links
- Institut d'urbanisme de paris, Paris 12 Val de Marne University: Pr Sachs' Interview
- Ignacy Sachs talks about the alternatives facing the third oil crisis
- Article by I. Sachs - "Brasil rural: da redescoberta à invenção"
- Interview with Ignacy Sachs, recorded in video
- Artigo: "Ecossocioeconomia? O que é isso, coleguinha?"
- Interview with Ignacy Sachs
- Articles and interviews
- United Nations Intellectual History Project
- A book written by Ignacy Sachs and published by Vedams Books, an Indian publisher