Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs

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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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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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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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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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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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