Global Capitalism is a Faustian Bargain: Greed in return for prosperity
Public Awareness and Consumer Activism
The Moral Basis for Business Activity

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The Moral Basis for Business Activity

This chapter looks at different dimensions of corporate social responsibility and stresses that the ethical responsibility of business must be a core component of business education. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or sharing with individuals or groups for educational purposes, such as in a classroom, workshop, or training. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy.…

The Moral Basis for Business Activity
Conversation with Rick Perlstein, Reaganland
Public Awareness and Consumer Activism

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Public Awareness and Consumer Activism

In this chapter, Professor Sachs talks about the importance of civil awareness of sustainable development and the desire of society to improve economic conditions, improve social inclusion, and move towards environmental sustainability. He provides cases of how citizens can be active, including ethical consumerism and behavioral shifts. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or…

Public Awareness and Consumer Activism
Consequences of Climate Change
Conversation with Rick Perlstein, Reaganland

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Conversation with Rick Perlstein, Reaganland

In this session of the Book Club, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rick Perlstein discuss his book Reaganland, the "Southernization" of American politics, the causes behind U.S. President Ronald Reagan's rise to power in the 1970s, and the way that conservatives’ cutthroat strategies to gain power remain a powerful political force today. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Conversation with Rick Perlstein, Reaganland
Q&A | Andrew Bauer | 2017 Apr. 12
Consequences of Climate Change

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Consequences of Climate Change

This lecture focuses on the consequences of climate change, and the dangers of not significantly reducing human CO2 emissions. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or sharing with individuals or groups for educational purposes, such as in a classroom, workshop, or training. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy. Content may not be used for commercial purposes.

Consequences of Climate Change
Markets and Supply Chains
Q&A | Andrew Bauer | 2017 Apr. 12

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Q&A | Andrew Bauer | 2017 Apr. 12

Andrew Bauer from the Natural Resource Governance Institute answers questions about revenue management and sovereign wealth funds.

Q&A | Andrew Bauer | 2017 Apr. 12
Introducing Sustainable Development
Markets and Supply Chains

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Markets and Supply Chains

Price fluctuations happen as a result of the storage process from seasonal harvests and the working of the markets and the supply chain, as these harvests need to be transported between production and consumption. In off-farm storage, there are issues of food safety, processing, and quality assurance. Seasonal price changes reflect the cost of storage because when simultaneous harvests occur across a huge area, prices are low, but after that, prices rise by exactly the cost of storage, or the…

Markets and Supply Chains
Living Within Limits: Energy, Agriculture, Industry
Introducing Sustainable Development

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Introducing Sustainable Development

In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs introduces the course "Sustainable Development: the Post-Capitalist Order" and defines sustainable development. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or sharing with individuals or groups for educational purposes, such as in a classroom, workshop, or training. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy. Content may not be used…

Introducing Sustainable Development
Global Capitalism is a Faustian Bargain: Greed in return for prosperity
Living Within Limits: Energy, Agriculture, Industry

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Living Within Limits: Energy, Agriculture, Industry

This lecture continues the investigation into the limits of growth, crucially noting that some limits have already been hit and that the goals of sustainable development are not just to set out limits within which we can safely restrict human activity, but also use planetary boundaries as a guide to shift behaviors. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or sharing with…

Living Within Limits: Energy, Agriculture, Industry
The Moral Basis for Business Activity
Global Capitalism is a Faustian Bargain: Greed in return for prosperity

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Global Capitalism is a Faustian Bargain: Greed in return for prosperity

This chapter describes the issues with current-day capitalism, using Faustian logic, and explains why it is neccessary to devise new institutions of governance, politics, and economy.

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