Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs

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Free Online Course: Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs provided by edX is a comprehensive online course. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is taught by Jeffrey D. Sachs.

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