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From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
| 1,069 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
| 770 770 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
| 892 892 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
| 518 518 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
| 963 963 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
| 291 291 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
| 125 125 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
| 127 127 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
| 149 149 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 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
| 237 237 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 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 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
| 205 205 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 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 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…