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Open Courseware
Shaping China’s Choices
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Gil Penchina
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Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice 5 of 5
A class analysis of the rise and fall of the USSR (with applications as well to China, etc.).
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Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice 3 of 5
A class analysis of the rise and fall of the USSR (with applications as well to China, etc.)
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Open Courseware
Conference on Chinese Capitalism
Scholars from around the world discuss the rise of China’s free enterprise and market economy.
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Side Effects – Richard Buckland UNSW 2008
The Adversary and adversary models of computation: an all powerful force out to get you. Side Effects: in machine code, in c functions, in general. Returning a value from main. Also: ASCII, talking in lectures, mars bars and Marco Polo and the emperor of china. Music: Triohatala by Stimmhorn (not really vikings)
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Open Courseware
SARS, Avian Inluenza, and Swine Flu: Lessons and Prospects
SARS, avian influenza and swine flu are the first new diseases of the twenty-first century. They are all diseases of globalization, or diseases of modernity, and while relatively limited in their impact, they have offered dress-rehearsals for future epidemics. As information about SARS spread internationally in 2002, in spite of China’s campaign of silence, the […]
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Asiatic Cholera (I): Personal Reflections
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 that struck Italy. The latter epidemic is of particular interest, because the official historiography of the disease has long confined its outbreaks in […]
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Open Courseware
Economic Impact of Population Growth
1) Population in China: Until recently, Chinese families did not much alter their fertility depending on life events such as deaths of children. However, under government prodding and eventually coercion, fertility dropped drastically in China in the 1970s, but to counteract momentum, the One-Child Policy started in 1979-80. 2) Population Growth and Economic Development: In […]
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Understanding the Overseas Investment Market
Culturally, the differences can be night and day. Financially, the rules can be completely different. Rather than trying to operate in China and jump its many hurdles from afar, KPCB partner Beth Seidenberg says her firm found the best local entrepreneurs in the country and partnered with them, giving them the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay0eYkaGanU