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Professor Shapiro guides the class through some practical applications of his theory of democratic justice. As applied to governing children, a sphere in which power-based hierarchy is inevitable, he circumscribes the role of the state as the fiduciary over children's basic interests and the role of parents as the fiduciaries over children's best interests. In other words, the state ensures the provision of the resources necessary for surv...more
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Taking off from a 2007 Gresham lecture "Stealing the Silver: How We Take From The Dispossessed, The Poor and Our Own Children", Michael intends to further explore equitable inter-generational economics. Starting with natural resources and long-lived infrastructure projects, then moving on to savings, business and fashion, we see a variety of commercial arrangements. But which ones are long-lasting? Which arrangements are fair to futu...more
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Environmental Politics and Law (EVST 255) The lecture discusses developments in air quality monitoring and regulation in the United States, with an emphasis on regulating vehicle emissions. Monitoring takes place at fixed points with results being averaged over three years, and this data informs air quality standard setting. Studies have found that this form of monitoring underreports the amount of pollution that children and other susc...more
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Long video explaining why entropy is a measure of the number of states a system can take on (mathy, but mind-blowing).
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Ignoring the solution or the solid state molecules when calculating the equilibrium constant.
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Dan Springer, CEO of Responsys, offers advice on how to raise venture money. Springer suggests that raising money depends on three factors: 1) What you have to offer, 2) The state of the venture market, and 3) An entrepreneurs long term goals. Springer argues that it is challenging for an entrepreneur with little experience or just an idea, as opposed to a business, to raise money and advises that entrepreneurs might be well served to rais...more
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Specific Heat Capacity and Enthalpy of Vaporization example.
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Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251)In this lecture, Professor Wrightson discusses the transformation of the English state in the twenty years following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He examines the ambiguities of the Revolutionary Settlement which placed authority in William III and Mary II following the deposition/abdication of James II, and the manner in which parliamentary gov...more
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Professor Shapiro dives more deeply into Robert Nozick's theory of the minimal, or night watchman, state. This formulation is not redistributive, nor does it consider rights as goals, but rather as side-constraints on what we can do. In other words, Nozick's is a deontological, not teleological, approach. However, the Achilles' heel of this formulation is the incorporation of independents, based on a system of compensation. Some people wil...more
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The bank gets bailed out by an equity infusion from a sovereign wealth fund.
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The final Enlightenment tradition left to be explored in this course is social contract theory, for which we must return to Locke and somehow secularize his views and reconcile them with the refutation of natural rights. Modern social contract theorists replace natural rights with Kant's categorical imperatives, and accept the Aristotelian notion that there is no such thing as pre-political man. They approach the social contract as a hypot...more
