
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Sir James Michael "Jimmy" Goldsmith was an Anglo-French billionaire financier. Towards the end of his life, he became a magazine publisher and a politician. In 1994, he was elected to represent France as a Member of the European Parliament and he subsequently founded the short-lived eurosceptic Referendum Party in Britain. He was known for his polyamorous romantic relationships and for the various children he fathered with his wives and girlfriends.
Looks at the social and economic problems that face the world, and analyzes global free trade, the welfare state, modern agriculture, and nuclear energy