Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs
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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Season 2, Episode 13: Richard Layard & Jan-Emmanuel De Neve: Wellbeing, Science and Policy
Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs
06/13/23 • 48 min
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and two of the world's leading experts on the economics of wellbeing, Lord Richard Layard and Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve to discuss their newest book, Wellbeing: Science and Policy. Together, they examine how wellbeing can be measured and how it can be promoted today and for future generations.
What produces a happy life and a happy society? Layard’s and De Neve’s new book offers a systematic exploration that brings together a fascinating and vast body of research in the past 20 years. This thought provoking conversation explores the new science of wellbeing and how it can improve public policies and our lives.
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Footnotes:
- World Happiness Report
- Wellbeing
- Aristotle
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Happiness as GDP
- Martin Seligman
- Subjective Happiness Scale
- Affective Component of Happiness
- Eudaimonia
- Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahneman
- Stoicism
- Positive Psychology
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Set point - stable point of genetic disposition
- Twin studies
- Mental Health Diagnosis with happiness
- Diminishing marginal of impact on wellbeing
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Season 2, Episode 14: Francisco Rodriguez, The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions
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08/22/23 • 47 min
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and economist Francisco Rodriguez as they discuss Professor Rodriguez’s newest publication, The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions. Prof. Rodriguez is an expert on the use of unilateral economic sanctions - when one country imposes economic costs on another, and shares insights on the US as the main user of such unilateral economic sanctions.
Professor Rodriguez offers us a comprehensive assessment of the effects of unilateral sanctions on the living standards in target countries. The effects of sanctions are dramatic: rising poverty, falling living standards, and premature deaths. These consequences go far beyond politics, and hit the civilian population very hard. Professor Sachs and Rodriguez offer a fascinating discussion that sheds light on economic warfare, and how it is deployed in the world today.
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Footnotes:
- Economic Sanctions
- Crisis in Venezuela
- Venezuela Economy
- The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate
- Hugo Chavez
- History of the Venezuelan Oil Industry
- US Economy
- US Sanctions
- International Financial Statistics
- US Maximum Pressure
- Nicolás Maduro
- Unilateral Sanctions
- Secondary Sanctions
- Juan Guaidó
- Citgo
- Sanctions During the Venezuela Crisis
- How Latin America Has Been Shaped
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Season 3, Episode 4: Dr. David Daokui Li, China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict
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02/06/24 • 38 min
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and economist David Daokui Li as they discuss Professor Li’s brilliant new book, China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict. Listen in as Professor Li explains the deep nature of Chinese politics and economics – based on China’s long history, Confucian culture, and meritocratic political system.
Together, they delve into a wide-ranging discussion of politics, education, philosophy, culture, and international relations. Professor Li helps us to understand the similarities and differences in the Chinese and US approaches to politics and economics, and explains how US-Chinese relations can be peaceful, constructive, and beneficial for both countries and the world.
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Footnotes:
- History of the People’s Republic of China
- Cultural Revolution
- Mao Zedong
- Civil Service of the People's Republic of China
- Meritocracy
- Social Structure in China
- Ancestor Veneration
- Lincoln Portrait, “Fellow Citizens, We Cannot Escape History..”
- Checks and Balances in China
- Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party
- Century of Humiliation
- Confucianism
- Opium Wars
- Meiji Restoration
- China-Russia Border
- Ancient Chinese History
- Ezra Vogel
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Season 3, Episode 6: Richard E. Rubenstein, Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
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04/02/24 • 48 min
Join Professors Jeffrey Sachs and an expert on religious conflict, Richard E. Rubenstein as they discuss Rubenstein’s book, Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages. Rubenstein skillfully guides us through the vivid controversies of the Middle Ages, making the philosophical debates of yesteryear both lively and accessible
Together, they discuss the riveting events that unfolded - sparking riots, initiating heresy trials, and causing seismic shifts within the Catholic Church.Throughout their discussion, you’ll uncover the origins of the age-old tension between reason and religion, a divide that continues to shape contemporary discourse. Listen in to gain insights into the foundational ideas that underpin modern thought, as we traverse the historical landscape where the clash of ancient wisdom and medieval upheaval set the stage for intellectual revolutions yet to come.
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Footnotes:
- Philosophy
- Aristotle
- When Jesus Became God
- Dark Ages
- Alexander the Great
- The Rise of Christianity
- Ancient Greek Philosophy
- Theologians
- Paganism
- The Golden Age
- Toledo School of Translators
- Aristotelianism
- Plato
- The Double Truth
- Peter Abelard
- Saint Augustine
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- Albertus Magnus
- Big Bang
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Episode 1: Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon
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03/01/21 • 40 min
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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Footnotes:
- Biography of John F. Kennedy
- President John F. Kennedy, Address before the UN General Assembly, 25 Sep. 1961
- Biography of Nikita Khrushchev
- American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- Biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Biography of Frank Oppenheimer
- The Day After Trinity (1981)
- Biography of Harry S. Truman
- Biography of James F. Byrnes
- Biography of Joseph Stalin
- Biography of Dwight Eisenhower
- President Dwight Eisenhower, Address before the UN General Assembly, 8 Dec. 1953
- Missives between Khrushchev and Kennedy
- Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council on the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Biography of Adlai Stevenson II
- Biography of U Thant
- Biography of Robert F. Kennedy
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Season 2, Episode 6: Christopher Blattman, Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
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06/07/22 • 44 min
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.
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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
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Episode 6: Patricia Sullivan, Justice Rising
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08/03/21 • 45 min
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
- Biography of John Doar
- Biography of John M. Patterson
- John F. Kennedy’s televised address to the Nation on Civil Rights on 11 June 1963
- Biography of James Meredith
- Biography of Harry Belafonte
- Biography of James Baldwin
- Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Biography of Lyndon B. Johnson
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Watts Riots
- Vietnam War
- Martin Luther King Jr. speech at New York’s Riverside Church on 4 Ap
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Episode 5: Robert Lustig, Metabolical
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07/06/21 • 47 min
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.
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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 at the "Let's Move" Action Plan Announcement with Cabinet Secretaries
- Type 2 Diabetes in Children
- The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery
- Fiber
- Activists Just Scored Bog Wins Against ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell
- PepsiCo working on reducing targets for salt, sugar in India
- Snacks for a Fat Planet: PepsiCo takes stock of the obesity epidemic
- How Denise Morrison Took Processed Food Icon Campbell’s On a Fresh Food Buying Spree
- $15 Million Settlement in Post Cereal Lawsuit
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Season 2, Episode 9: Glenn Denning, Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet
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01/03/23 • 49 min
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.
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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
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Episode 9: Eric Foner, The Second Founding
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11/02/21 • 53 min
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.
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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
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Marx & Engels on the Civil War
- Birthright Citizenship
- Insurrection
- Federalism
- Jurisprudence
- US Electoral Process
- Texas House Passes Voting Bill
- The Dunning School
- W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
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How many episodes does Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs have?
Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs currently has 39 episodes available.
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The average episode length on Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is 48 minutes.
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The first episode of Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs was released on Mar 1, 2021.
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