Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs
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Join world-renowned economist and Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs for lively conversations with the authors of scintillating, inspiring and remarkably important books about history, social justice, and the challenges of building a decent world. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org. The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, an initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Produced by Karena Joslin. Audio editing by Matt Rocker, theme song composed by Matt Rocker, performed by Dave Eggar. A kontentreal production.
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May 23, 2023
Season 2, Episode 12: Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Bruce Cumings, renowned historian and expert in East-Asian history, to discuss Cuming’s book, The Korean War. Together, they discuss the factors that led to the Korean War, its brutal trajectory, and its powerful and fateful impacts US foreign policy.
The Korean War, though little known or understood today, continues to cast a long shadow on geopolitics and US foreign policy up to this day. Cumings offers a profound and essential look into a war that is widely misunderstood, forgotten, or willfully ignored, but that still deeply shapes our world.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
Footnotes:
* Korean War
* World War II
* American Military in WWII
* US Second Amendment
* NSC68
* 38th Parallel
* Pro-Japanese Collaborators
* Five Theories of Korean Unification
* Dean Acheson
* Marshall Plan Speech
* Korean War and Japan’s Recovery
* Cold War
* Declaration of Neutrality
* George Kennan
* Guerrilla Operations in North Korea
* US in the Korean War
* American Armed Forces Statistics
* Nuclear Arms Race
* Yellow River Flood
* Relief of Douglas MacArthur
* Trench Warfare
* Death Count of Korean War
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Mar 10, 2023
Season 2, Episode 11: Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and bestselling science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, to discuss Robinson’s recent books The Ministry for the Future and New York 2140 for a thought provoking conversation on how climate change has and will potentially affect us all.
Together, they explore climate change as an existential threat and the plausible and tumultuous ways the climate crisis will shape our future. What happens as we push beyond planetary boundaries? Will sea levels rise to devastating levels, submerging lower Manhattan and other urban centers of the world? Will climate change lead to acts of terrorism, countries engaging in unilateral geoengineering, and even climate terrorism?? Will UN member states finally get their act together?
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*Footnotes:*
* COP Meetings
* Paris Agreement
* UN Member States
* Small Island States
* 1.5 degree Celsius
* Unanimity Rules
* Decarbonize
* Capitalism
* Mass Extinction
* Keynesian
* Tax Structures
* Biosphere
* Sovereign Nation
* Dystopia
* Utopia
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Feb 1, 2023
Season 2, Episode 10: Chris Coyne: In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
Join Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Chris Coyne, economist and author of In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace, for an eye-opening examination on whether interventionist methods should ever have a place in foreign policy.
Together, they discuss American imperialism and militaristic culture around the world, proving that nonviolent approaches to domestic and international conflicts not only minimize violence, but also promote cultures of peace throughout the world. Coyne presents his compelling arguments as to why such interventions are a threat to liberal values and alternative methods can preserve freedom and promote security between nations.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes:*
* Afghanistan Papers
* Pentagon Papers
* John Quincy Adams
* Liberalism
* Joe Biden
* Autocracies
* January 6th resurrection
* Manifest Destiny
* Westward Expansion
* Imperialism
* Militarism in the US
* Banana Wars
* Cronyism
* Adam Smith
* United Fruit - Guatemala
* Dulles Brothers
* Game Theory
* US Surveillance State
* Church Committee (CIA violating its charter)
* American military spending
* Capturing Osama Bin Laden
* US War on Drugs in Afghanistan
* Taliban
* Latin American war on drugs
* Militarism of Drones
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Jan 3, 2023
Season 2, Episode 9: Glenn Denning, Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Glenn Denning, a world-leading specialist in agricultural and food policy to discuss Denning’s new book Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet. Together, they explore how we can achieve a food-secure world while protecting the planet through sustainable agricultural technologies, farm practices, and healthy diets.
Their discussion ranges broadly over the choices of agricultural technology, food policy, dietary choices, and public institutions needed to achieve global food security with environmental sustainability. Denning shares his wealth of personal experiences as an agricultural policy advisor in many parts of the world, and vividly describes pivotal achievements in food policy. He describes vividly how our complex food challenges can be systematically addressed and solved.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes:*
* Food Security
* Food System Impacts on Climate Change
* Sustainable Development Goals
* Energy System Transformation
* Integrated Rural Development
* Agronomy
* Sustainable Agriculture
* International Rice Institute
* Plant Architecture
* Harvest Index
* IR 8
* IR 36
* Green Revolution Rice Variety
* Philippines 3 Rs - rice roads and arithmetic
* Khmer Rouge
* Gene Bank
* Anthropogenic GreenHouse Gasses
* Cows Methane Release
* Green House Emissions - Agriculture
* Post Harvard Stewardship
* Social Protection
* Sustainable Intensification
* Thomas Robert Malthus (1798)
* Theory of Change
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Nov 29, 2022
Season 2, Episode 8: Orlando Figes: The Story of Russia
Join Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Orlando Figes, historian and author of The Crimean War (2012) and his new book, The Story of Russia (2022), in a fascinating discussion of Russian history and ideas about Russian history.
Together, they examine the 19th century Crimean War and the powerful light that the Crimean War, 170 years ago, sheds on the current conflict in Ukraine. More generally, Sachs and Figes explore Russia’s complex relationship with the West, and the ideas that Russian and Western thinkers and politicians have held about Western-Russian international relations throughout history.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes:*
* Books by Orlando Figes
* Crimean War
* Vladimir Putin
* Anti-Russian Sentiment
* Nicolas II of Russia
* Wars Involving Russia
* Ottoman Empire
* Treaty of Paris 1856
* Lord Palmerston
* The Crimean War Crises of 1853
* Anglo-Russian War
* Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire
* Mikhail Gorbachev
* Soviet Union
* Annexation of Crimea
* Ukraine War
* Nikita Khrushchev
* Cossacks
* Russian Oligarchs
* NATO
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Sep 15, 2022
Season 2, Episode 7: SPECIAL EDITION: The COVID-19 Lancet Commission Report
In this special episode, join Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa, and Professor K. Srinath Reddy for their discussion of The Lancet Commission Report on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Together, they discuss the background to the Commission and the key findings after two years of research. They discuss the possible origins of the virus that causes Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2; including the possibilities that the virus emerged from laboratory research or from an infected animal in the marketplace. They discuss failures of international cooperation and national public-health policy-making - failures that have contributed to 18 million deaths worldwide from Covid-19. Most importantly, they discuss the Commission’s recommendations for the future on how to prevent or confront future global health emergencies, most importantly by strengthening WHO as the core pillar of global policy.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
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Jun 7, 2022
Season 2, Episode 6: Christopher Blattman, Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Christopher Blattman, to explore the dynamics of war and peace as they discuss Blattman’s, Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace. In his newest book, Blattman argues that violence is not the norm; that there are five reasons why wars break out; and how peacemakers can draw on these reasons to prevent and stop wars.
Together, they explore the dynamics of war and peace: how communities resolve conflicts, and why such efforts sometimes fail, leading to war. As conflict rages in Ukraine, listen in on this timely and vital conversation to learn more about “Why We Fight" and how we can end wars.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes:*
* Mao Zedong
* Ukraine War
* Clausewitz: War as Politics by other Means
* Military History of Russia
* The Rise of Personalist Rule
* Washington as Land Speculator
* French and Indian War
* Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
* Semi-sovereignty
* Game Theory
* Reversed Industrialization
* Stalemate
* Thucydides Trap
* The Peloponnesian War
* NATO
* War of Attrition
* Frozen Conflict
* Autocrat
* Vietnam War
* Volodymyr Zelenskyy
* United Nations Security Council
* International Criminal Court
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May 3, 2022
Season 2, Episode 5: Anil Seth, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and neuroscientist Anil Seth, author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness to explore the hard problem of consciousness. Because the deep puzzles of consciousness can’t be solved head-on with existing scientific methods, Seth aims to gradually “dissolve” the problem by looking at levels of consciousness, the content of consciousness, and the mystery of the sense of self.
Together, they unpack several of the hard questions: How can physical beings have subjective experiences? How can we measure consciousness? Is consciousness the feeling of being alive?
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
Footnotes:
* Consciousness
* Artificial Intelligence
* What Is It Like To Be A Bat? By Thomas Nagel
* Psychiatric Injury
* Functional Neuroimaging
* Phenomenology Consciousness
* Functional Consciousness
* Behavioral Consciousness
* Experiential Perception
* Pattern Recognition
* Self-Driving Vehicles
* Qualia
* Hard Problem of Consciousness
* Panpsychism
* Élan Vital
* EEG, MRI, fMRI
* Locked-In Syndrome
* Adrian Owen
* Sense Perception
* Controlled Hallucination
* Chris Frith
* Plato: Allegory of the Cave
* Sensory Nervous System
* William James
* Neural Circuit
* Metacognition
* Animal Trial
* Machine Consciousness
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Apr 5, 2022
Season 2, Episode 4: Peter H. Lindert, Making Social Spending Work
*Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Peter H. Lindert, economic historian and author of **Making Social Spending Work** in which Lindert examines how social spending relates to economic growth in various countries and the emphasis we must place on investing in the young. *
*Together, they examine the history of public social spending and address the key challenges around intergenerational inequality and fiscal redistribution, the returns on investment in human capital, how to deal with an aging global population, and whether migration is a cost or a benefit for society. *
*The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the **SDG Academy**, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at **bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org**.*
*Footnotes:*
* *The Rise of Social Spending*
* *Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the 18th Century*
* *Public Spending on Education*
* *Sustainable Development Goal 4*
* *Social Spending** *
* *Welfare*
* *Social Expenditure Database*
* *Adam Smith*
* *John Locke*
* *Thomas Malthus*
* *French Revolution*
* *Church and State in 21st Century Britain*
* *The Road to Serfdom*
* *Authoritarianism*
* *Free Lunch Puzzle*
* *Social Democracy*
* *Universal Health Coverage in the US*
* *The US Immigration Debate*
* *Spending on Children and the Elderly*
* *China’s Hukou System *
* *Global Pension Statistics*
* *Toward a Political Economy of Social Policy*
* *Hilary W. Hoynes*
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Mar 1, 2022
Season 2, Episode 3: Casey Michel: American Kleptocracy
*Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Casey Michel, journalist and author of **“American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History.”** **In his debut book, Michel offers a deep investigation into how the US built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known.*
*Together, they examine just how the US implosion into a center of global offshoring took place, what that means for the rest of the world, and its vast implications for those who seek to preserve open societies and the rule of law.*
*The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the **SDG Academy**, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at **bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org**.*
*Footnotes:*
* *Kleptocracy*
* *Money Laundering** *
* *Offshoring*
* *US as a Tax Haven*
* *Pandora Papers** *
* *Panama Papers*
* *Perpetuity** *
* *South Dakota is Turning Into a Tax-haven for the Global Elite*
* *Shell Corporations *
* *White Collar Crime** *
* *USA Patriot Act*
* *Senator Carl Levin*
* *International Revenue Service (IRS) *
* *How Delaware Became the World’s Biggest Offshore Haven*
* *Loopholes for Kleptocrats*
* *The Great American Tax Haven: Why the Super-rich Love South Dakota*
* *Dynasty Trust*
* *Biden Administration Launches U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption*
* *Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen at the Summit for Democracy*
* *Counter Kleptocracy Caucus*
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Feb 1, 2022
Season 2, Episode 2: Heather Cox Richardson: How the South Won the Civil War
*Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Heather Cox Richardson, renowned historian and author of **How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America** in which Richardson argues that while the North prevailed in the American Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a “new birth of freedom,” democracy’s blood-soaked victory was ephemeral.*
*Together, they discuss the myth that the Civil War released the US from the grip of oligarchy and the competing claims of equality and subordination woven into the nation's fabric and identity.*
*The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the **SDG Academy**, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at **bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org**.
Footnotes:*
* *Colonial America*
* *Otto Ecktein*
* *American Civil War*
* *Oligarchy*
* *Declaration of Independence*
* *Edmund Morgan*
* *“All Men are…
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Jan 4, 2022
Season 2, Episode 1: Keisha Blain, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
John Professor Jeffrey Sachs and award-winning historian, Dr. Keisha Blain, as they discuss her latest book, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America.
Together, they will situate Fannie Lou Hamer as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks while illustrating how her ideas remain salient for a new generation of activists committed to dismantling systems of oppression in the United States and across the globe.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes:*
* Fannie Lou Hamer
* Civil Rights Movement
* 1964 Democratic National Convention
* Hamer's Testimony at the Democratic National Convention 1964
* White Supremacy
* Voter Suppression in the United States
* Sharecropping
* Literacy Test
* Jim Crow South…
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Dec 7, 2021
Episode 10: Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
John Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Corey Robin, political theorist and author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump in which Robin argues that conservatism is a reaction against movements of the left—from the French Revolution to feminism.
Together, they discuss aspects of such arguments, including the roots of conservatism, and what drives the political right in today's political landscape.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes:*
* Conservatism
* Edmund Burke
* Letter to a Noble Lord
* French Revolution
* Sarah Palin
* Subaltern
* Social Construction of Gender
* Democratic Governance
* Joseph de Maistre
* Populism
* Modern American Conservatism
* Aristocracy
* Limousine Liberal
* Racial Ideology
* Abolitionism
* Traditionalist…
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Nov 2, 2021
Episode 9: Eric Foner, The Second Founding
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Eric Foner, as they discuss Foner's latest novel, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
Together, they discuss this transformative era in American history, and how the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments remain strong tools for achieving the American ideal of equality, if only we will take them up.* *
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes:*
* The Second Founding
* 13th, 14th & 15th US Amendments* *
* History of the US
* American Civil War
* Three-fifths Clause
* “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”
* Timeline of the Revolution
* Plantation States
* Slavery & Serfdom
* Abraham Lincoln
* Abolitionism
* Fugitive Slave Acts
* Debt Limit
* Emancipatio…
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Oct 5, 2021
Episode 8: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not “a Nation of Immigrants”
John Professor Jeffrey Sachs and highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, to discuss her latest novel, Not “A Nation of Immigrants.”
Together they discuss settler colonialism, white supremacy, and the history of erasure and exclusion in the United States while urging the audience to embrace a more complex and honest history, which has typically been left out of traditional American textbooks.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes*
* An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
* Immigration to the US
* Settler Colonialism
* First Immigration Act - Chinese Exclusion Act
* Northwest Territory
* Andrew Jackson
* Irish Catholic Immigration to America
* Agrarian Civilizations
* John Smith
* Alexander Ha…
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Sep 7, 2021
Episode 7: Rick Perlstein, Reaganland, America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rick Perlstein for their discussion of Reaganland.
Together they discuss the "Southernization" of American politics, the causes behind U.S. President Ronald Reagan's rise to power in the 1970s, and the way that conservatives’ cutthroat strategies to gain power remain a powerful political force today.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes*
* Biography of Barry Goldwater
* Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001)
* Biography of Richard Nixon
* Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008)
* Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 (2021)
* Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
* Biography of Water Cronkite
* Biography of Walter Lippmann
* New Deal
* The End of Ideo…
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Aug 3, 2021
Episode 6: Patricia Sullivan, Justice Rising
In this month's episode of the Book Club, Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Patricia Sullivan, a leading civil rights historian, place Robert Kennedy at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s—and show how many of today’s issues can be traced back to that pivotal time in US history.
Prof. Sullivan is the author of this month's featured book Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes:*
* Biography of Robert F. Kennedy
* American Civil War
* National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
* Brown vs. Board of Education
* Jim Crow Laws
* Biography of John F. Kennedy
* World War II
* New Deal
* Biography of Ralph Bunche
* Biography of Alexander Bickel
* Biography of Burke Marshall…
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Jul 6, 2021
Episode 5: Robert Lustig, Metabolical
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and New York Times-bestselling author Dr. Robert Lustig for their discussion of Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine, Dr. Lustig's newest book about the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society.
Together, they discuss the relationship between nutrition and non-communicable disease, the dangers of processed foods, and the ways in which the entrenched interests of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government influence our current healthcare paradigm.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes:*
* What is Leptin?
* The Role of Leptin in Human Physiology: Emerging Clinical Applications
* Noncommunicable diseases
* Global obesity rates
* Remarks by US First Lady Michelle Obama…
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Jun 1, 2021
Episode 4: Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy
In this episode, Professor Jeffrey Sachs speaks with Dr. Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value and Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London, about her new book Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism.
Professors Sachs and Mazzucato discuss the history of public ambition embodied in the American moon landing and the importance of boldly reimagining the capacities and role of government to solve today's "wicked problems" and recover a sense of public purpose.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes:*
* Moonshot
* Apollo Program
* Project Mercury
* Gemini Program
* President John F. Kennedy's address to Joint Session of Congress, 25 May 1961
* Sustainable Development Goals (S…
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May 4, 2021
Episode 3: Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rashid Khalidi as they discuss Khalidi's book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 and the long history of disenfranchisement against the Palestinian people.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes:*
* Edward Said (1984), Permission to Narrate
* Biography of Yusuf Diya al-Din Pasha al-Khalidi
* Khalidi Library
* Zionism Movement
* Biography of Theodor Herzl
* Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
* Mandate for Palestine, 29 September 1923
* Book of Joshua
* Right to Self Determination
* UN Votes for Partition of Palestine, 29 November 1947
* Nakba
* Israeli Declaration of Independence, 14 May 1948
* Biography of Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein
* Camp David Accords, 17 Septemb…
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Apr 6, 2021
Episode 2: Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law
Prof. Sachs speaks with historian Richard Rothstein about his groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, in which Rothstein explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions. Rather, he makes clear that it was the laws and policy decisions of local, state, and federal governments that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to affect Black Americans to this day.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
*Footnotes:*
* Richard Rothstein. (2020, Jan. 20). The Neighborhoods We Will Not Share. The New York Times.
* Richard Rothstein. (2020, Aug. 14). The Black Lives Next Door. The New Yor…
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Mar 1, 2021
Episode 1: Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon
Welcome to the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs!
In this first episode, world-renowned economist and Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin about his book Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world.
Professors Sachs and Sherwin discuss the choices of the Truman and Eisenhower administrations over the course of the nuclear arms race, Khrushchev’s and Kennedy’s positions during the Bay of Pigs debacle, and the often-overlooked role of US Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson—and luck—in preventing a nuclear world war.
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