Jeffrey Sachs

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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Jeffrey Sachs

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Episode 3: Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine 04.05.2021 46:28

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Episode 2: Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law 06.04.2021 40:56

Send us Fan Mail 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. Rath...

Episode 1: Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon 01.03.2021 40:05

Send us Fan Mail 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...