His book, "Developing a World Tax Organization: The Way Forward," is must-reading for anyone involved with economic policy formation and administration. The book lays out the debate over global economic coordination and shows how coordinating an across-the-board tax policy fits into that picture. He argues that "facilitating greater global coordination of tax polic(ies)" is important for the overall global economy and lays out a detailed policy plan with a blueprint for "a stand-alone organization with a specific international jurisdiction."
Sawyer is a fighter, bucking traditionalists in the field of economics and emerging in 1998 from a personal fight with a terrible illness, necrosis of the pancreas. He is "just catching up now," he says, which is good for the rest of us. We need visionary thinkers to chart our paths in the emerging world economy, and we’re lucky to have people such as Adrian Sawyer weighing potential solutions to our current economic crises. At no time have those services been more needed, as we face the largest economic challenge since the Great Depression. In every discussion on trade policies, Adrian Sawyer’s sagacious advise must, at least, be considered.