These videos are from the SDG Academy online course Sustainable Development: The Post-Capitalist Order, first launched in 2019 and taught entirely by Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
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13,615 playsIn this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs introduces the course "Sustainable Development: the Post-Capitalist Order" and defines sustainable development. This… -
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14,473 playsThis chapter describes why the concept of sustainable development is so important, why it is so important that we orient towards the three objectives of prosperity,… -
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2,012 playsHow are resources mobilized to achieve sustainable development? This question is addressed in this video about financing the SDGs. This video is licensed under the CC… -
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5,519 playsEducation is crucial for global development and for the success of sustainable development, but this chapter discusses the content of learning to be good citizens in a… -
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2,930 playsThis chapter focuses on the three main environmental challenges facing the world today: human-induced climate change, biodiversity loss, and the pollution caused by… -
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810 playsThis chapter discusses two important questions: is it feasible to have economic growth from this point forward and does economic growth even make sense on a finite… -
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1,363 playsThis chapter is the final chapter in the Sustainable Development: the Post Capital Order course, and looks at the ethics of sustainable development, looking at key… -
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1,448 playsThis chapter explores inequality based on geographic factors, looking at the history of colonialism and slavery, discrimination, and indigenous populations. This video… -
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711 playsIn this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs elaborates on a crucial SDG: SDG number 4, which calls for universal access to quality education for all. This video is… -
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546 playsThis chapter focuses o the six sources of well-being, challenging the traditional capitalist idea that consumers will maximize their well-being and instead looking at… -
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300 playsThis chapter describes the issues with current-day capitalism, using Faustian logic, and explains why it is neccessary to devise new institutions of governance,… -
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312 playsThis chapter discusses why we need to change course, and why we are not achieving sustainable development, but we are, globally speaking, achieving economic growth. … -
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152 playsThis 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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65 playsSustainable development represents a shift from our current system of inequitable capitalism to one that prioritizes prosperity for all, while remaining conscious of its… -
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135 playsMonopoly power is a common failure of global capitalism. In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs looks at the ways in which sustainable development limits monopoly… -
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46 playsIn this chapter, Professor Jeffery Sachs talks about the need to have multiple stakeholders at the forefront of moving towards sustainable development. This video is…