Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs

Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and neuroscientist Anil Seth, author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness to explore the hard problem of consciousness. Because the deep puzzles of consciousness can’t be solved head-on with existing scientific methods, Seth aims to gradually “dissolve” the problem by looking at levels of consciousness, the content of consciousness, and the mystery of the sense of self.Together, they unpack several of the hard questions: How can physical beings have subjective experiences? How can we measure consciousness? Is consciousness the feeling of being alive?  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:ConsciousnessArtificial IntelligenceWhat Is It Like To Be A Bat? By Thomas Nagel  Psychiatric InjuryFunctional NeuroimagingPhenomenology ConsciousnessFunctional ConsciousnessBehavioral Consciousness Experiential PerceptionPattern Recognition Self-Driving VehiclesQualiaHard Problem of ConsciousnessPanpsychismÉlan VitalEEG, MRI, fMRILocked-In Syndrome Adrian Owen Sense PerceptionControlled HallucinationChris FrithPlato: Allegory of the CaveSensory Nervo⭐️ Thank you for listening!➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org 🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends! 📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Peter H. Lindert, economic historian and author of Making Social Spending Work in which Lindert examines how social spending relates to economic growth in various countries and the emphasis we must place on investing in the young. Together, they examine the history of public social spending and address the key challenges around intergenerational inequality and fiscal redistribution, the returns on investment in human capital, how to deal with an aging global population, and whether migration is a cost or a benefit for society. 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:The Rise of Social SpendingGrowing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the 18th CenturyPublic Spending on EducationSustainable Development Goal 4Social Spending WelfareSocial Expenditure DatabaseAdam SmithJohn LockeThomas MalthusFrench RevolutionChurch and State in 21st Century BritainThe Road to SerfdomAuthoritarianismFree Lunch PuzzleSocial DemocracyUniversal Health Coverage in the USThe US Immigration DebateSpending on Children and the Elderly⭐️ Thank you for listening!➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org 🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends! 📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Casey Michel, journalist and author of “American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History.”  In his debut book, Michel offers a deep investigation into how the US built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known.Together, they examine just how the US implosion into a center of global offshoring took place, what that means for the rest of the world, and its vast implications for those who seek to preserve open societies and the rule of law.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:KleptocracyMoney Laundering  OffshoringUS as a Tax HavenPandora Papers Panama PapersPerpetuity South Dakota is Turning Into a Tax-haven for the Global EliteShell Corporations White Collar Crime USA Patriot ActSenator Carl LevinInternational Revenue Service (IRS) How Delaware Became the World’s Biggest Offshore HavenLoopholes for KleptocratsThe Great American Tax Haven: Why the Super-rich Love South DakotaDynasty Trust⭐️ Thank you for listening!➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org 🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends! 📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Heather Cox Richardson, renowned historian and author of How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America in which Richardson argues that while the North prevailed in the American Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a “new birth of freedom,” democracy’s blood-soaked victory was ephemeral.Together, they discuss the myth that the Civil War released the US from the grip of oligarchy and the competing claims of equality and subordination woven into the nation's fabric and identity.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:Colonial AmericaOtto EckteinAmerican Civil WarOligarchyDeclaration of IndependenceEdmund Morgan“All Men are Created Equal”Confederate States of AmericaJanuary 6 2021 InsurrectionDemocracyRight Wing PoliticsInfoWarsDemagogueFCC Fairness DoctrineFacebook Algorithm RegulationThe True Believer; Eric HofferAuthoritarianismIndigenous People of the AmericasWestward Expansion⭐️ Thank you for listening!➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org 🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends! 📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a textJohn Professor Jeffrey Sachs and award-winning historian, Dr. Keisha Blain, as they discuss her latest book, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America. Together, they will situate Fannie Lou Hamer as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks while illustrating how her ideas remain salient for a new generation of activists committed to dismantling systems of oppression in the United States and across the globe.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:Fannie Lou HamerCivil Rights Movement1964 Democratic National ConventionHamer's Testimony at the Democratic National Convention 1964White SupremacyVoter Suppression in the United States SharecroppingLiteracy TestJim Crow SouthApartheidMississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)Lyndon B. JohnsonSecond-class Citizen“Mississippi Appendectomy”Forced SterilizationFannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Activist, Savagely Beaten in Mississippi JailIntersectionalitySet the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom The Working Poor⭐️ Thank you for listening!➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org 🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends! 📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a textJohn Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Corey Robin, political theorist and author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump  in which Robin argues that conservatism is a reaction against movements of the left—from the French Revolution to feminism.Together, they discuss aspects of such arguments, including the roots of conservatism, and what drives the political right in today's political landscape.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:ConservatismEdmund BurkeLetter to a Noble LordFrench RevolutionSarah PalinSubalternSocial Construction of GenderDemocratic GovernanceJoseph de MaistrePopulismModern American ConservatismAristocracyLimousine LiberalRacial IdeologyAbolitionismTraditionalist ConservatismNew LeftCancel Culture‘Why Me?’ The Role of Perceived Victimhood in American PoliticsRichard NixonDonald TrumpReagan EraJoe ManchinNew Deal⭐️ Thank you for listening!➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org 🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends! 📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a textJoin 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.  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:The Second Founding 13th, 14th & 15th US Amendments History of the USAmerican Civil War Three-fifths Clause“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”Timeline of the Revolution Plantation States Slavery & SerfdomAbraham LincolnAbolitionismFugitive Slave ActsDebt LimitEmancipation ProclamationMarx & Engels on the Civil WarBirthright Citizenship InsurrectionFederalism JurisprudenceUS Electoral ProcessTexas House Passes Voting Bill The Dunning SchoolW.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction⭐️ Thank you for listening!➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org 🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends! 📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a textJohn Professor Jeffrey Sachs and highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, to discuss her latest novel, Not “A Nation of Immigrants.”   Together they discuss settler colonialism, white supremacy, and the history of erasure and exclusion in the United States while urging the audience to embrace a more complex and honest history, which has typically been left out of traditional American textbooks. 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.FootnotesAn Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United StatesImmigration to the USSettler Colonialism First Immigration Act  - Chinese Exclusion Act Northwest Territory Andrew Jackson Irish Catholic Immigration to AmericaAgrarian Civilizations  John Smith Alexander Hamilton Slave Labor Sugar Plantations in the Caribbean Marriage of Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton A Fiscal Military State From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 24 November 1801Doctrine of Discovery City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New YorkEthnic Cleansing in the US ⭐️ Thank you for listening!➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org 🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends! 📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rick Perlstein for their discussion of Reaganland. Together they discuss the "Southernization" of American politics, the causes behind U.S. President Ronald Reagan's rise to power in the 1970s, and the way that conservatives’ cutthroat strategies to gain power remain a powerful political force today.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.FootnotesBiography of Barry GoldwaterBefore the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001)Biography of Richard NixonNixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008)Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 (2021)Biography of Franklin D. RooseveltBiography of Water CronkiteBiography of Walter LippmannNew DealThe End of IdeologyBiography of Daniel BellBiography Lyndon B. JohnsonCivil Rights Act of 1964Biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower Biography of Richard RothsteinMason-Dixon LineBrown v. Board of EducationBiography of Storm ThurmondBiography of Martin Luther King Jr.Housing discrimination in the USABiography of Ronald Reagan  United Nations Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Make America great againBiography of Bill Clinton⭐️ Thank you for listening!➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org 🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends! 📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a textIn 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. KennedyAmerican Civil WarNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)Brown vs. Board of EducationJim Crow LawsBiography of John F. KennedyWorld War IINew DealBiography of Ralph BuncheBiography of Alexander BickelBiography of Burke MarshallBiography of John DoarBiography of John M. PattersonJohn F. Kennedy’s televised address to the Nation on Civil Rights on 11 June 1963Biography of James MeredithBiography of Harry BelafonteBiography of James BaldwinBiography of Martin Luther King Jr.Biography of Lyndon B. JohnsonCivil Rights Act of 1964Watts RiotsVietnam WarMartin Luther King Jr. speech at New York’s Riverside Church on 4 Ap⭐️ Thank you for listening!➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org 🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends! 📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!