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The Rights to Health, Education, and Decent Work

The Rights to Health, Education, and Decent Work

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In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs gives an overview of health, education, and labor rights, tying each one to the overall goals of sustainable development.
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The Challenge of Sustainable Development

The Challenge of Sustainable Development

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This chapter serves as a conclusion to the course Macroeconomics for a Sustainable Planet. In this final video, Professor Sachs talks about the environmental challenges…
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Growth and Inequality

Growth and Inequality

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This chapter focuses on growth and inequality, and more specifically, the Kuznets Curve, in order to show the relationship between income per capita and inequality.…
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Stagnant and divided

Stagnant and divided

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In this first session of The Turn, Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Roberto Mangabeira Unger set the stage for their discussion and seek to answer the question "What…
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What is Globalization?

What is Globalization?

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This chapter focuses on globalization and the interconnection of the evolving world economy. Globalization is a multi-dimensional process of goods and services,…
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Education and Skills

Education and Skills

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This video is part of Module 5: How can we improve human development in cities? education, skills, focus on SDG 4
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From now to an alternative: The missing project

From now to an alternative: The missing project

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In the final session of The Turn, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Roberto Mangabeira Unger present their visions of a "progressive alternative" and discuss what…
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Losing and finding the way: The United States and…

Losing and finding the way: The United States and Brazil

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In this second session of The Turn, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Roberto Mangabeira Unger will explore the rise of populism and the shift towards progressivism in the…
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The Market Economy: Specialization, Division of…

The Market Economy: Specialization, Division of Labor, Entrepreneurship

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This chapter talks about the arrival of capitalist institutions which remade societies by creating market relations for labor, land, intellectual property, and other…
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Inflation, Unemployment, and the Phillips Curve

Inflation, Unemployment, and the Phillips Curve

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This chapter discusses inflation and unemployment, as well as problems of stabilization. There is a trade-off between inflation and unemployment. Professor…
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Link between Employment, Work, Income and Wealth

Link between Employment, Work, Income and Wealth

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What is the link between employment, work, and wealth? This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However,…
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Monetary Policy Under Fixed and Floating Exchange…

Monetary Policy Under Fixed and Floating Exchange Rates

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This chapter discusses monetary policy, and focuses on the difference between fixed and floating exchange rates. It begins by explaining the role that a central bank…
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Three Big Problems with Aggregate Demand…

Three Big Problems with Aggregate Demand Management

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This chapter mentions three problems with stimulus policies. First, it may not be so easy to raise aggregate demand using the specific policy tools that government has,…
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The Capable Agent: Education

The Capable Agent: Education

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In the ninth video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger lays out his four-part vision of a truly progressive approach to…
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The New Dilemma of Development

The New Dilemma of Development

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In the third video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger explains that traditional means of promoting economic…
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Conversation with Peter Lindert, Making Social…

Conversation with Peter Lindert, Making Social Spending Work

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Jeffrey Sachs and Peter H. Lindert discuss Prof. Lindert’s new book: Making Social Spending Work. Lindert’s new work brilliantly examines the history of…

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