Ignacy Sachs (

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officiall ...

, 1927) is a Polish-born French economist. He is considered to be an ''ecosocioeconomist'' for his ideas about

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as a combination of economic growth, equalitarian increase in social well-being and

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. The term ''ecosocioeconomy'' was created by

Karl William Kapp Karl William Kapp (October 27, 1910 – April 4, 1976) was a German-American economist and Professor of Economics at the City University of New York and later the University of Basel. Kapp's main contribution was the development of a theory of s ...

, a German economist and one of the authors who inspired the so-called

political economy Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...

during the 1970s. Professor Sachs taught at Paris XII University. Now Sachs is an invited researcher in the Institut of Advanced Studies in

University of São Paulo The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the bes ...

- he lived in

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between 1941 and 1953 as a war refugee. He was one of the rare

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who have returned to

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

(before his move to

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) after the

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; he did it due to his

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convictions."Caminhos para o desenvolvimento sustentável", Ignacy Sachs, Rio de Janeiro, Garamond, 2002, p. 20-21

Biography

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 Terceira Margem'' by Companhia Das Letras in 2009. This book is an autobiography of Ignacy Sachs and

Viola Sachs Viola Sachs (20 September 1929 – 26 June 2020) 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 w ...

. Its title is inspired on a

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written by Guimarães Rosa.

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