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From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
1,069 playsThis chapter serves as a conclusion to the course Macroeconomics for a Sustainable Planet. In this final video, Professor Sachs talks about the environmental challenges… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
770 playsThis chapter focuses on growth and inequality, and more specifically, the Kuznets Curve, in order to show the relationship between income per capita and inequality.… -
From SDG Academy 26 April, 2021
892 playsThis conversation with Professor Mariana Mazzucato, took place on April 26, 2021, as part of the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. They discussed Prof. Mazzucato's new… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
518 playsIn this chapter, Professor Larraín explains Solow's Growth Behavioral Model. He explains terms such as capital stock, investment, marginal productivity of… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
963 playsThis chapter focuses on globalization and the interconnection of the evolving world economy. Globalization is a multi-dimensional process of goods and services,… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
291 playsThis 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… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
125 playsThis chapter begins by explaining the impact of aggregate demand in an open economy, via fixed and flexible exchange rates. In a fixed or pegged exchange rate, the… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
127 playsThis chapter discusses inflation and unemployment, as well as problems of stabilization. There is a trade-off between inflation and unemployment. Professor… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
149 playsThis chapter focuses on saving and investment, which are the main drivers of capital accumulation. By building up the stock of capital, the economy becomes more… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
75 playsIn this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses international trade and how it is affected by the exchange rate, which is in turn affected by financial flows and the… -
From SDG Academy 3 December, 2024
237 playsJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and retired Air Force Command Chief Master Sergeant Dennis Fritz, a former Pentagon insider, as they explore the extremely important… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
32 playsThis 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,… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
44 playsThis chapter discusses interactions between the public and private sectors through the role of pressure groups, who push the government in the direction of higher… -
From SDG Academy 28 November, 2023
205 playsJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist Lindsey O’Rourke as they discuss O’Rourke’s remarkable book, Covert Regime Change. US foreign… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
47 playsThis chapter explains the IS-LM model of John Hicks to understand aggregate demand management. Assuming that wages are sticky and that the price that the business… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
35 playsThis module covers money and central banking, and looks at how a barter economy differs from a monetary economy. The financial crisis of 2008 is explained in order to…
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