Course Syllabus
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- Module 1: What is Sustainable Development
- Chapter 1: What is Sustainable Development?
- Chapter 2: Why Sustainable Development is Important: Happiness & Wellbeing
- Chapter 3: Global Capitalism is a Faustian Bargain: Greed in return for prosperity
- Chapter 4: We are Not Achieving Sustainable Development
- Chapter 5: Using Sustainable Development as Our Global Framework
- Module 2: What Do Global Markets Do?
- Chapter 1: The Traditional Economy
- Chapter 2: The Market Economy: Specialization, Division of Labor, Entrepreneurship
- Chapter 3: Production Possibility Frontier
- Chapter 4: Fair or Unfair: Intragenerational and Intergenerational
- Chapter 5: The Malthusian Specter
- Module 3: A Brief History of our Faustian Bargain
- Chapter 1: Traditional empires
- Chapter 2: The Age of Discovery
- Chapter 3: The Industrial Revolution: Population and Production
- Chapter 4: The American Century
- Chapter 5: The Age of Convergence
- Module 4: Capitalism and Injustice
- Chapter 1: Power (Colonialism and Slavery, Discrimination, Indigenous Rights)
- Chapter 2: Gender
- Chapter 3: Class and Inter-Generational Privileges
- Chapter 4: Skills and Jobs
- Chapter 5: The Social Democratic Idea
- Module 5: The SDGs: Leaving No One Behind
- Chapter 1: Ending Poverty: Skills, Infrastructure, Inclusion, Redistribution
- Chapter 2: Universal Access to Education
- Chapter 3: Universal Access to Health Care
- Chapter 4: Universal Access to Infrastructure
- Chapter 5: Innovation Economy
- Module 6: The Tragedy of The Commons
- Chapter 1: Growth on a Finite Planet: Is it Inherently Impossible?
- Chapter 2: The Three Big Challenges: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Pollution
- Chapter 3: The Three Big Transformations: Clean Energy and Industry, Land Use, Smart Cities
- Chapter 4: Overcoming Obstacles: Technology, Vested Interests, Corruption, Foresight
- Chapter 5: Malthus Revisited
- Module 7: From Capitalism to Sustainable Development
- Chapter 1: Six Sources of Wellbeing
- Chapter 2: Public Provision of Human Needs
- Chapter 3: Taming Corporate Greed
- Chapter 4: Limiting Monopoly Power
- Chapter 5: Subsidiarity
- Chapter 6: Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship
- Module 8: Achieving Sustainable Development
- Chapter 1: The Two SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals and Social Democratic Governance
- Chapter 2: Using Goals to Motivate Social Change
- Chapter 3: Regional and Global Cooperation for Sustainable Development
- Chapter 4: Engaging All Stakeholders
- Chapter 5: Financing Sustainable Development
- Chapter 6: The Ethics of Sustainable Development
