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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Penguin, 320 pp., $27.95)

ON U2’s 1987 hit album The Joshua Tree, lead singer Bono belted out a powerful number in which he claimed, “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.” He didn’t know it at the time, but apparently what the Irish rocker was seeking was a pasty-skinned and energetic development economist. The economist was then spending time shuttling between La Paz, Bolivia, and Cambridge, Mass., helping the Bolivian government try to put its economy on a path to stabilization and growth. That economist was Jeffrey Sachs.

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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Penguin, 320 pp., $27.95)

ON U2’s 1987 hit album The Joshua Tree, lead singer Bono belted out a powerful number in which he claimed, “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.” He didn’t know it at the time, but apparently what the Irish rocker was seeking was a pasty-skinned and energetic development economist. The economist was then spending time shuttling between La Paz, Bolivia, and Cambridge, Mass., helping the Bolivian government try to put its economy on a path to stabilization and growth. That economist was Jeffrey Sachs.