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Pontiff-icating on the Free-Market System: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast

This week’s episode of Freakonomics Radio takes a look at Pope Francis’s critique of the free-market system in “Evangelii Gaudium”(“The Joy of the Gospel”), his first apostolic exhortation. (You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above. You can also read the transcript, which includes credits for the music you’ll [...]

Declaration on the Well-Being of NYC’s Children

Written by the New York City Advisory Council on Child Well-Being. The New York City Advisory Council on Child Well-Being endorses Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio’s call for universal pre-kindergarten for four-year-olds, and after-school for middle-school children, as part of a bold and comprehensive program to enable NYC’s children to meet their potential. We urge leaders [...]

The Age of Sustainable Development on Coursera

“For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all form of human poverty and all forms of human life,” John F. Kennedy observed a half-century ago, and his observation speaks to us today with special urgency. Our generation is truly the first that can end the ancient scourge of extreme poverty. Yet [...]

Seminar on Africa’s Demographic Transition and Development

The Columbia Population Research Center, which is based at the Columbia School of Social Work, hosted Professor Jeffrey Sachs for a seminar entitled: “Africa’s Demographic Transition and Development.” This is the intro to the event, which took place on December 12, 2013.

Discussing the Moral Economy with Chris Hayes

Discussion begins at 5:00 min mark.

World to Poor: Drop Dead

The spin-masters are already at work putting all of the sugar coating on it, but the reality is shocking and revealing. The world as a whole didn’t come up with a measly $5 billion a year for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria. $5 billion was a bare minimum needed to maintain [...]

Cities and Sustainable Development

NEW YORK – Tacloban in the Philippines has now joined the growing list of cities – including New Orleans, Bangkok, Moscow, New York, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, and Port-au-Prince, to name just a few – pummeled in recent years by climate catastrophes. Many of the world’s largest cities, built on seacoasts and rivers, face the [...]

JFK: Man of hope

John F. Kennedy’s death seared the world like none other in modern history.  Countless statesmen, politicians, heroes, and celebrities have riveted the world in their lives and deaths, but for my generation, it is JFK’s death that divides the world into before and after.  I had just turned nine, and my parents were 35 years [...]

President Kennedy 50 years later

With MSNBC Martin Bashir: JFK’s fight for good government