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Lecture 16 - The Importance of George Washington,  The American Revolution 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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