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Conversation with Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A ScenarioJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and award-winning journalist Annie Jacobsen as they discuss Jacobsen’s chilling and rigorous depiction of nuclear war in her groundbreaking book, Nuclear War: A…
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Conversation with Christina Gerhardt and Simona Marinescu, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising OceanJoin Professors Jeffrey Sachs, Christina Gerhardt and UN Senior Advisor on Small Island Developing States, Simona Marinescu as they discuss human induced global warming, the implications of rising…
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Politics and Development Strategies for the AmazonThis lecture provides an overview of historic economic activities and development strategies in the Amazon. Learn how Amazonian resources (oil, minerals, hydropower, and biodiversity) have been…
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Conversation with Norman Solomon, War Made InvisibleJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political and media analyst Norman Solomon as they discuss Solomon’s important new book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military…
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The Next Comers: US, Germany, Japan and the RestIn this module, Professor Sachs talks about the Anglo-American-led age of the industrial era. Britain became urban and a military force during the 19th century, and became the British Empire as we…
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Conquest, Slavery and Genocide in the AmericasIn this chapter, Professor Sachs elaborates on Adam Smith’s point that European trade and navigation brought plunder and misery to native inhabitants of many regions of the world, as impunity…
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