43 Courses
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Environmental Politics and Law
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Introduction to the Course
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Principles & Strategies in Environmental Law
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Nuclear Experiments
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Nuclear Secrecy and Ecology
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Preparing for War: NEPA
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Marine Food-Chains: Mercury
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Site Restoration Law
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Chemically Dependent Agriculture
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Risk and Law: Pesticide Paradigm
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Safe Drinking Water: Science and Law
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Safety Claims and Free Speech: Preemption and Defamation
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Air Quality Law: Margins of Safety
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Vehicle Emissions and Public Transit
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The Quiet Revolution in Plastics
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The Tobacco Paradigm
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Evolution of Tobacco Law
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Land Use and Conservation Law: The Adirondack History
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Property Rights and Public Lands Management
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Land Use Law and Property Rights
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Managing Coastal Resources in an Era of Climate Change
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Certification: Design and Green Architecture
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Past and Future of Nuclear Power
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Renewable Energy Policies
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Reflection and Lessons
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Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600
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Introduction to the Course
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Classical Views of Disease: Hippocrates, Galen, and Humoralism
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Plague (I): Pestilence as Disease
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Plague (II): Responses and Measures
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Plague (III): Illustrations and Conclusions
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Smallpox (I): 'The Speckled Monster'
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Smallpox (II): Jenner, Vaccination, and Eradication
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Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Paris School of Medicine
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Asiatic Cholera (I): Personal Reflections
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Asiatic Cholera (II): Five Pandemics
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The Sanitary Movement and the 'Filth Theory of Disease'
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Syphilis: From the "Great Pox" to the Modern Version
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Contagionism versus Anticontagionism
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The Germ Theory of Disease
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Tropical Medicine as a Discipline
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Malaria (I): The Case of Italy
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Malaria (II): The Global Challenge
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Tuberculosis (I): The Era of Consumption
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Tuberculosis (II): After Robert Koch
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Pandemic Influenza
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The Tuskegee Experiment
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AIDS (I)
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AIDS (II)
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Poliomyelitis: Problems of Eradication
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SARS, Avian Inluenza, and Swine Flu: Lessons and Prospects
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Final Q&A
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European Civilization, 1648-1945
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Introduction to European Civilization
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Absolutism and the State
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Dutch and British Exceptionalism
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Peter the Great
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The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere
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Maximilien Robespierre and the French Revolution
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Napoleon
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Industrial Revolutions
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Middle Classes
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Why No Revolution in 1848 in Britain
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Nineteenth-Century Cities
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Nationalism
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Radicals
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Imperialists and Boy Scouts
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The Coming of the Great War
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War in the Trenches
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Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (Guest Lecture by Jay Winters)
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The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution
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Successor States of Eastern Europe
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Stalinism
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Fascists
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Collaboration and Resistance in World War II
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The Collapse of Communism and Global Challenges
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Evolution, Ecology and Behavior
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The Nature of Evolution: Selection, Inheritance, and History
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Basic Transmission Genetics
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Adaptive Evolution: Natural Selection
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Neutral Evolution: Genetic Drift
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How Selection Changes the Genetic Composition of Population
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The Origin and Maintenance of Genetic Variation
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The Importance of Development in Evolution
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The Expression of Variation: Reaction Norms
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The Evolution of Sex
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Genomic Conflict
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Life History Evolution
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Sex Allocation
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Sexual Selection
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Species and Speciation
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Phylogeny and Systematics
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Comparative Methods: Trees, Maps, and Traits
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Key Events in Evolution
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Major Events in the Geological Theatre
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The Fossil Record and Life's History
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Coevolution
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Evolutionary Medicine
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The Impact of Evolutionary Thought on the Social Sciences
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The Logic of Science
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Climate and the Distribution of Life on Earth
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Interactions with the Physical Environment
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Population Growth: Density Effects
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Interspecific Competition
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Ecological Communities
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Island Biogeography and Invasive Species
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Energy and Matter in Ecosystems
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Why So Many Species? The Factors Affecting Biodiversity
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Economic Decisions for the Foraging Individual
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Evolutionary Game Theory: Fighting and Contests
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Mating Systems and Parental Care
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Alternative Breeding Strategies
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Selfishness and Altruism
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Faith and Globalization
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Themes in Faith and Globalization
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Historical Forces in Faith and Globalization
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Stakes and Faith in Globalization: Miroslav Volf
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Stakes and Faith in Globalization: Douglas Rae
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Stakes and Faith in Globalization: Tony Blair
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Promise and Peril of Faith and Globalization
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The Nation-State in Faith and Globalization
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Secularization and Transformation of Faiths
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Faiths as Shapers of Globalization: Jose Casanova
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Faiths as Shapers of Globalization: Douglas Rae
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Reconciliation in the Name of Faith: Miroslav Volf
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Reconciliation in the Name of Faith: Tony Blair
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Values that Shape the Market: Miroslav Volf
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Values that Shape the Market: Douglas Rae
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Corporate Governance
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Faith and Globalization with James Alexander
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Faiths and Poverty Alleviation: Miroslov Volf
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Faiths and Poverty Alleviation: Douglas Rae
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Faiths and Poverty Alleviation: Ambassador Tony Hall
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Faiths and Poverty Alleviation: Tony Blair
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Faiths, Globalization and Gender: Miroslav Volf
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Islam, Globalization and Gender
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Faiths, Globalization and Gender: Muna Abu Sulayman Interview
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Financial Markets
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Introduction and What this Course Will Do for You and Your Purposes
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Risk and Financial Crises
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Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society
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Review of Probability and Statistics; Intro to Present Value
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Technology and Invention in Finance
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Portfolio Diversification and Supporting Financial Institutions (CAPM Model)
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Insurance: The Archetypal Risk Management Institution
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Efficient Markets vs Excess Volatility
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Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology
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Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation
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Investing for the Long Run
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Debt Markets: Term Structure
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Stocks
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Real Estate Finance and Its Vulnerability to Crisis
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Banking: Successes and Failures
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The Efficiency of Markets
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Guest Lecture by Carl Icahn
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The Evolution and Perfection of Monetary Policy
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Investment Banking and Secondary Markets
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Professional Money Managers and Their Influence
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Brokerage, ECNs, etc
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Private Equity and the Financial Crisis
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Forwards and Futures
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Stock Index, Oil and Other Futures Markets
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Options Markets
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The Democratization of Finance
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Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis, Part I
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Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis, Part II
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Financial Theory
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Why Finance?
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Utilities, Endowments, and Equilibrium
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Computing Equilibrium
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Efficiency, Assets, and Time
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Present Value Prices and the Real Rate of Interest
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Irving Fisher's Impatience Theory of Interest
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Collateral, Present Value and the Vocabulary of Finance
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Budgeting for a Long-Lived Institution, Yield
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Dynamic Present Value
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Social Security
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Overlapping Generations Models of the Economy
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Demography and Asset Pricing
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Quantifying Uncertainty and Risk
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Uncertainty and the Rational Expectations Hypothesis
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Backward Induction and Optimal Stopping Times
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Callable Bonds and the Mortgage Prepayment Option
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Modeling Mortgage Prepayments and Valuing Mortgages
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History of the Mortgage Market: A Personal Narrative
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Dynamic Hedging
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Dynamic Hedging and Average Life
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Risk Aversion and the Capital Asset Pricing Theorem
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The Mutual Fund Theorem and Covariance Pricing Theorems
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Risk, Return, and Social Security
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The Leverage Cycle and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
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The Leverage Cycle and Crashes
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Financial Theory
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Foundations of Modern Social Theory
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Introduction
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Hobbes: Authority, Human Rights and Social Order
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Locke: Equality, Freedom, Property and the Right to Dissent
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The Division of Powers- Montesquieu
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Rousseau: Popular Sovereignty and General Will
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Rousseau on State of Nature and Education
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Utilitarianism and Liberty, John Stuart Mill
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Smith: The Invisible Hand
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Marx's Theory of Alienation
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Marx's Theory of Historical Materialism (1)
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Marx's Theory of Historical Materialism (cont.)
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Marx's Theory of History
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Marx's Theory of Class and Exploitation
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Nietzsche on Power, Knowledge and Morality
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Freud on Sexuality and Civilization
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Weber on Protestantism and Capitalism
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Conceptual Foundations of Weber's Theory of Domination
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Weber on Traditional Authority
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Weber on Charismatic Authority
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Weber on Legal-Rational Authority
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Weber's Theory of Class
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Durkheim and Types of Social Solidarity
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Durkheim's Theory of Anomie
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Durkheim on Suicide
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Durkheim and Social Facts
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