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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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This chapter overviews investments in oil, gas and mining projects. It includes a comparison of private and state ventures. Sources of income include: cash from existing…
How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project
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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 serves as a conclusion to the course Macroeconomics for a Sustainable Planet. In this final video, Professor Sachs talks about the environmental challenges…
The Challenge of Sustainable Development
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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 focuses on growth and inequality, and more specifically, the Kuznets Curve, in order to show the relationship between income per capita and inequality.…
Growth and Inequality
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The ocean has always sparked human curiosity. In the mid-20th century, people began to realize that there are limits to what humanity should do to our planet before it…
Our Ocean: A Finite Resource
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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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What is the link between employment, work, and wealth? This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
Link between Employment, Work, Income and Wealth
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Jeffrey Sachs speaks with journalist Casey Michel, author of American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History.…
Conversation with Casey Michel, American…
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Societal progress is about improvements in the well-being of people and households. Assessing such progress requires looking not only at the functioning of the economic…
Measures of well-being
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Webinar 6 Siena International School of Sustainable Development 2022
From Waste to Wealth
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Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Mission…
This 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…Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Mission…
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