Ignacy Sachs

Ignacy Sachs (17 December 1927 – 2 August 2023) was a Polish-born French economist. He was considered to be an ecosocioeconomist for his ideas about development as a combination of economic growth, equalitarian increase in social well-being and environmental preservation.
Life and career
Ignacy Sachs was born on 17 December 1927.
Sachs taught at Paris XII University. He was an invited researcher in the Institut of Advanced Studies in University of São Paulo, and lived in Brazil between 1941 and 1953 as a war refugee. He was one of the few Jews who returned to Poland (before his move to France) after World War II, which he did due to his communist convictions.
Death
Ignacy Sachs died on 2 August 2023, at the age of 95.
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. Its title is inspired on a short story written by Guimarães Rosa.
See also
Karl William Kapp
Viola Sachs
References
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
1927 births
2023 deaths
Sustainability advocates
French economists
20th-century Polish Jews
Polish emigrants to France
People from Warsaw