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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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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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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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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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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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Learn about the existing inequalities in America and you can reduce your own biases for a more equitable society. Learn about implicit bias and how to become a racial…
Policing, racism, and colorism in America and…
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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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Globally, concerns about rising and common wealth and equality have intensified in recent years. This discourse has sort of transcended academic and political circles…
Inequality, poverty, and social identity
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From Carol Graham, one of the first economists to start thinking about happiness and wellbeing as part of science, learn about happiness and its complex connection to…
Introducing well-being
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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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