These videos are from the SDG Academy online course Globalization: Past and Future, first launched in 2017 and taught entirely by Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
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From SDG Academy on 19 June, 2020
Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planet-wide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter is an introduction to the course Globalization: Past and Future. Jeffrey Sachs provides an overview of the six major waves of globalization: the Great… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
The sixth wave of globalization is the one expected to characterize the 21st century. In this chapter, Professor Sachs provides an overview of the Planetary Boundaries… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
What are the prime drivers of globalization? Where do they come from and how do they diffuse? And what are the fundamental patterns of global scale change that affect… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter serves as a conclusion to the course Globalization: Past and Future. Professor Sachs talks about the need for a shared global vision on ethical values. Part… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
In this chapter, Professor Sachs elaborates on Adam Smith’s point that European trade and navigation brought plunder and misery to native inhabitants of many… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter discusses the diffusion of industrialization within Europe and around the world, and specifically its impact on India and Africa. Professor Sachs shows a… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter focuses on the third wave of globalization (land-based globalization), the Classical Age of the Roman Empire and the Han Empire in China, and the role of… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
In this chapter, Professor Sachs joins the ancient world of the Roman Empire with the world of globalization that commences with Columbus and Vasco da Game in the last… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter focuses on the fourth wave of globalization, or the era of ocean-based globalization, and the period between Christopher Columbia and James Watt, the… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the fifth wave of globalization, which is the Industrial Age. He chooses 1776 as its starting point, as this was the year that… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
In this chapter, Professor Sachs talks about needing new forms of governance and global cooperation. In a world of environmental threats and widening inequalities,… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Professor Sachs begins this chapter by explaining Angus Maddison's graphs of GDP per capita and population from the 1700s, in order to explain Europe’s rise… -
From SDG Academy on 2 August, 2019
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From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
In this chapter, Professor Sachs talks about the rise of the global industry with emphasis on agriculture and global production and value chains. In the 16th century, it… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the mid-latitudes of Eurasia, which have been at the core of so much global change, technological dynamism, and world power…