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Lecture 16 - The Importance of George Washington, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 This lecture focuses on George Washington and the combined qualities that made him a key figure in Revolutionary America, arguing that the most cr...

Lecture 21 - Contemporary Communitarianism, part II, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 In this lecture, Professor Shapiro delves into the nuances of MacIntyre’s argument, focusing specifically on his Aristotelian account of human psy...

Lecture 10 - Asiatic Cholera (II): Five Pandemics, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Asiatic cholera was the most dreaded disease of the nineteenth century. While its demographic impact could not compare to that of the bubonic plagu...

Lecture 1 - Information and Housekeeping, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Shapiro explains the format and structure of the class during this opening session. He reviews the syllabus, and asks the central questi...

Lecture 11 - The Sanitary Movement and the 'Filth Theory of Disease', Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The sanitary movement was an approach to public health first developed in England in the 1830s and '40s. With increasing industrialization...

Lecture 15 - Citizens and Choices: Experiencing the Revolution in New Haven, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 To show how Americans experienced the war and made difficult choices, Professor Freeman offers a spur-of-the-moment lecture on New Haven during th...

Lecture 20 - Contemporary Communitarianism, part I, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 In addition to the traditionalist-conservative view covered last time, the other anti-Enlightenment school the course explores is contemporary com...

Lecture 9 - Asiatic Cholera (I): Personal Reflections, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Snowden describes the historical detective work that went into the research and writing of Naples in the Time of Cholera, his study of t...

Lecture 8 - Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Paris School of Medicine, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 In the decades immediately following the French Revolution, Paris was at the center of a series of major developments in medical science, sometime...

Lecture 14 - Heroes and Villains, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 In this lecture, Professor Freeman discusses Benedict Arnold as a case study of the ways in which ideas about regionalism, social rank, and gender...

Lecture 18 - The "Political-not-Metaphysical" Legacy, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The mature Rawls departed quite a bit from his earlier theory of justice, choosing instead an overlapping consensus, or political, not metaphysica...

Lecture 18 - The "Political-not-Metaphysical" Legacy, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The mature Rawls departed quite a bit from his earlier theory of justice, choosing instead an overlapping consensus, or political, not metaphysica...

Lecture 19 - The Burkean Outlook, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Edmund Burke was an English politician who wrote his Reflections on the Revolution in France to express his disdain for the destructive havoc wroug...

Lecture 12 - Civil War, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Freeman concludes the discussion of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was widely circulated and read aloud throughout the ...

Lecture 13 - Organizing a War, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 In this lecture, Professor Freeman discusses four difficulties that the Continental Congress faced in organizing the colonial war effort: regional...

Lecture 7 - Smallpox (II): Jenner, Vaccination, and Eradication, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 It is not known for certain when smallpox first appeared in Europe; however, the disease reached its highpoint in the seventeenth and eighteenth c...

Lecture 17 - Distributive Justice and the Welfare State, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The main focus of today’s discussion is Rawls's third and most problematic principle, the difference principle, which states that income ...

Lecture 19 - Dynamic Hedging, Financial Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 29, 2011 Suppose you have a perfect model of contingent mortgage prepayments, like the one built in the previous lecture. You are willing to bet on your pr...

Lecture 14 - Uncertainty and the Rational Expectations Hypothesis, Financial Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 29, 2011 According to the rational expectations hypothesis, traders know the probabilities of future events, and value uncertain future payoffs by discount...

Lecture 18 - History of the Mortgage Market: A Personal Narrative, Financial Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 29, 2011 Professor Geanakoplos explains how, as a mathematical economist, he became interested in the practical world of mortgage securities, and how he be...

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