Social Sciences | Law and Politics - Open Courseware (OCW)Capitalism: Success, Crisis and ReformYale University (US)capitalism using ideas from biological evolution, Firms pursuing varied strategies and facing extinction when those strategies fail are analogous to organisms struggling for survival in nature, ways it can be shaped to fit more specific objectives The Moral Foundations of PoliticsYale University (US)explores main answers to the question "when do governments deserve our allegiance?", survey of major political theories of the Enlightenment—Utilitarianism, Marxism, and the social contract tradition—through classical formulations, historical context, contemporary debates relating to politics, rejection of Enlightenment political thinking, democratic politics and their relations to Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment, Practical implications Economic Applications of Game TheoryMIT OpenCourseWare (US)basic tools of game theoretic analysis, applications of game theory, primarily in economics and political science: readings Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Global EnergyMIT OpenCourseWare (US)strategic and political implications of ongoing trends in global energy markets, particularly markets for crude oil and natural gas, world's major oil and natural gas producing regions (Middle East, the Caspian Region, Russia, Venezuela, and the North Sea), Producer-consumer relationships for China, India, Japan, and the US, foreign policy implications, especially with respect to China |