I recently read Sach’s The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time and I found it completely lacking in substantive analysis of any manner. Even assuming that we are working within a framework of western “charitable aid” to the global south, the book still was overly focused on the personal experiences of Sachs and how this affected his outlook on how to allocate resources rather than actual research. I have read that his other writings deal with it in a more absolute manner but I still thought it was an interesting read that I, at least, enjoyed more than I thought. But this is still ignoring the issue of working through what could essentially be called a “Capitalist Realism” lense rather than through a Marxist one. Even so, I still think these criticisms stand.