King Petar Karađorđević the Liberator, the creator of the state of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, based his political program on Milo's treatise On Freedom.
This book contains lectures by sociologist Anthony Giddens on the state of the world at the end of the twentieth century. Globalization, risk, tradition, family and democracy are key and unavoidable topics in understanding the state and changes of the mod
In the book, economist Jeffrey Sachs presents an optimistic plan for eliminating extreme poverty by 2025. He argues that this is feasible with political will, because world wealth is growing, and poverty is not fate, but the result of inefficient systems.