Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs
Offered By: Columbia University via edX
Course Description
Overview
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is a free global forum to discuss outstanding, recently-published work that examines the most important topics for humanity.
Hosted by Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the eminent thought-leader in economics and sustainable development, the Book Club features monthly interviews with renowned authors about their groundbreaking work in sustainability, economics, history, social justice, and more.
Members of the Book Club will have access to these live conversations, as well as book excerpts, supplementary resources, and a discussion forum where they can communicate with peers from around the world.
The Book Club welcomes policy professionals, practitioners, advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and all readers interested in engaging in these thoughtful and inspiring conversations.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is an initiative of the SDG Academy, the flagship educational initiative of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).
Syllabus
January: Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon
February: Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law
March: Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
April : Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
May: Robert Lustig, Metabolical
June: Patricia Sullivan, Justice Rising
July: Rick Perlstein, Reaganland
August: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not "a Nation of Immigrants"
September: Eric Foner, The Second Founding
October: Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind
November: Keisha N. Blain, Until I Am Free
December: Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
Additional books to be featured:
Peter H. Lindert, Making Social Spending Work
Taught by
Jeffrey D. Sachs
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