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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In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs introduces the course "Sustainable Development: the Post-Capitalist Order" and defines sustainable development. This…
Introducing Sustainable Development
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This 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,…
Why Sustainable Development is Important:…
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Education 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…
Education for Sustainable Development and Global…
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How 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…
Financing Sustainable Development
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This chapter focuses on the three main environmental challenges facing the world today: human-induced climate change, biodiversity loss, and the pollution caused by…
The Three Big Challenges: Climate Change,…
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This 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…
Growth on a Finite Planet: Is it Inherently…
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This 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…
The Ethics of Sustainable Development
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In 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…
Universal Access to Education
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This chapter explores inequality based on geographic factors, looking at the history of colonialism and slavery, discrimination, and indigenous populations. This video…
Fairness, Understanding Factors of Inequality
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This 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…
Six Sources of Wellbeing
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This chapter describes the issues with current-day capitalism, using Faustian logic, and explains why it is neccessary to devise new institutions of governance,…
Global Capitalism is a Faustian Bargain: Greed in…
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This chapter discusses why we need to change course, and why we are not achieving sustainable development, but we are, globally speaking, achieving economic growth. …
We Are Not Achieving Sustainable Development
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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…
The Market Economy: Specialization, Division of…
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Sustainable development represents a shift from our current system of inequitable capitalism to one that prioritizes prosperity for all, while remaining conscious of its…Sustainable Development: The Post-Capitalist…
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Monopoly power is a common failure of global capitalism. In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs looks at the ways in which sustainable development limits monopoly…
Limiting Monopoly Power
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In this chapter, Professor Jeffery Sachs talks about the need to have multiple stakeholders at the forefront of moving towards sustainable development. This video is…
Regional and Global Cooperation for Sustainable…
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