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Lecture 16 - The Importance of George  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 16 - The Importance of George ...

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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 crucial reason for his success as a national leader ...
Lecture 21 - Contemporary Communitarianism  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 21 - Contemporary Communitarianism, ...

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May 25, 2011
In this lecture, Professor Shapiro delves into the nuances of MacIntyre’s argument, focusing specifically on his Aristotelian account of human psychology. It has two features: (1) man's ...
Lecture 10 - Asiatic Cholera II Five  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 10 - Asiatic Cholera (II): Five ...

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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 plague, it nonetheless held a tremendous purchase on ...
Lecture 1 - Information and Housekeeping The  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 1 - Information and Housekeeping, The ...

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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 question of the course: What makes a government ...
Lecture 11 - The Sanitary Movement and the  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 11 - The Sanitary Movement and the ...

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May 25, 2011
The sanitary movement was an approach to public health first developed in England in the 1830s and '40s. With increasing industrialization and urbanization, the removal of filth from ...
Lecture 15 - Citizens and Choices  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 15 - Citizens and Choices: ...

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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 the Revolution, discussing how Yale College ...
Lecture 20 - Contemporary Communitarianism  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 20 - Contemporary Communitarianism, ...

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May 25, 2011
In addition to the traditionalist-conservative view covered last time, the other anti-Enlightenment school the course explores is contemporary communitarianism. While Burke and Devlin appealed to ...
Lecture 9 - Asiatic Cholera I Personal  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 9 - Asiatic Cholera (I): Personal ...

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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 the 1884 and 1911 epidemics of Asiatic cholera ...
Lecture 8 - Nineteenth-Century Medicine The  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 8 - Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The ...

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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, sometimes described as the transition from medieval to ...
Lecture 14 - Heroes and Villains The  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 14 - Heroes and Villains, The ...

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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--and the realities of the Continental Congress ...
Lecture 18 - The Political-not-Metaphysical  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 18 - The "Political-not-Metaphysical" ...

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May 25, 2011
The mature Rawls departed quite a bit from his earlier theory of justice, choosing instead an overlapping consensus, or political, not metaphysical approach. Professor Shapiro argues that this is ...
Lecture 18 - The  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 18 - The ...

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May 25, 2011
The mature Rawls departed quite a bit from his earlier theory of justice, choosing instead an overlapping consensus, or political, not metaphysical approach. Professor Shapiro argues that this is ...
Lecture 19 - The Burkean Outlook The Moral  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 19 - The Burkean Outlook, The Moral ...

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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 wrought by the French Revolution. As a ...
Lecture 12 - Civil War The American Revolution | BahVideo.com

Lecture 12 - Civil War, The American Revolution

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May 25, 2011
Professor Freeman concludes the discussion of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was widely circulated and read aloud throughout the colonies. Professor Freeman argues that by ...
Lecture 13 - Organizing a War The American  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 13 - Organizing a War, The American ...

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May 25, 2011
In this lecture, Professor Freeman discusses four difficulties that the Continental Congress faced in organizing the colonial war effort: regionalism, localism, the supply shortage that the ...
Lecture 7 - Smallpox II Jenner  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 7 - Smallpox (II): Jenner, ...

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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 centuries, when it persisted as an endemic disease ...
Lecture 17 - Distributive Justice and the  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 17 - Distributive Justice and the ...

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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 and wealth is to be distributed "to the greatest ...
Lecture 19 - Dynamic Hedging Financial Theory | BahVideo.com

Lecture 19 - Dynamic Hedging, Financial Theory

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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 prepayment forecasts, but not on which way interest ...
Lecture 14 - Uncertainty and the Rational  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 14 - Uncertainty and the Rational ...

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April 29, 2011
According to the rational expectations hypothesis, traders know the probabilities of future events, and value uncertain future payoffs by discounting their expected value at the riskless rate of ...
Lecture 18 - History of the Mortgage Market A  | BahVideo.com

Lecture 18 - History of the Mortgage Market: A ...

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April 29, 2011
Professor Geanakoplos explains how, as a mathematical economist, he became interested in the practical world of mortgage securities, and how he became the Head of Fixed Income Securities at ...
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