Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs
Hosted by Jeffrey Sachs · Jeffrey Sachs
4.8from 364 ratings
- 55
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 364
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs
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.
- Publisher
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Category
- arts · history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Mar 2021
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
3 of 55 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026
Season 5 Episode 7: Sven Beckert; Capitalism: A Global History
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Season 5 Episode 6: Steven Nadler
7 Jul 2026
Season 5 Episode 5: Sam Dalrymple - Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
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Season 5 Episode 6: Steven Nadler
Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Because Spinoza's writing just at the time of course it's the time of tremendous religious ferment it's uh the 30 years war it's the the still a century later but the aftermath of luther's uh reformation and turmoil but it's also exactly the age of the early scientific revolution and overlaps with the newton and with the the breakthroughs in in natural science and spinoza is in a way, together with some of his contemporaries that you mentioned, Descartes and Leibniz and Newton, the philosophers exactly of the emerging modern world. Can you help people to understand the broader context that he was engaged in? […]
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- Sven Beckert
- Steven Nadler
- Sam Dalrymple
- Dorothy A Brown
- Rana Mitter
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- 4.8 / 5
- 164 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 200 ratings
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