Ian Shapiro
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Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He has written widely and influentially on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. A native of South Africa, he received his J.D. from the Yale Law School and his Ph.D from the Yale Political Science Department where he has taught since 1984 and served as chair from 1999 to 2004. Shapiro is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a past fellow of the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cape Town and Nuffield College, Oxford. His most recent books are The Real World of Democratic Theory; Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror; The Flight From Reality in the Human Sciences; and Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth (with Michael Graetz). His current research concerns the relations between democracy and the distribution of income and wealth.


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flag Lecture 1 - Information and Housekeeping
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flag Lecture 3 - Natural Law Roots of the Social Contract Tradition
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flag Lecture 2 - Introductory Lecture
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flag Lecture 4 - Origins of Classical Utilitarianism
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flag PLSC 118 - Moral Foundations of Politics
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flag Lecture 10 - Marx's Theory of Capitalism
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flag Lecture 5 - Classical Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice
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flag Lecture 17 - Distributive Justice and the Welfare State
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flag Lecture 9 - The Marxian Challenge
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flag Lecture 14 - Rights as Side Constraints and the Minimal State
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flag Lecture 16 - The Rawlsian Social Contract
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flag Lecture 12 - The Marxian Failure and Legacy
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flag Lecture 20 - Contemporary Communitarianism (I)
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flag Lecture 15 - Compensation versus Redistribution
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flag Lecture 11 - Marxian Exploitation and Distributive Justice
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flag Lecture 7 - The Neoclassical Synthesis of Rights and Utility
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flag Lecture 18 - The "Political-not-Metaphysical" Legacy
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flag Lecture 21 - Contemporary Communitarianism (II)
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flag Lecture 8 - Limits of the Neoclassical Synthesis
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flag Lecture 23 - Democracy and Majority Rule (II)
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flag Lecture 6 - From Classical to Neoclassical Utilitarianism
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flag Lecture 19 - The Burkean Outlook
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flag Lecture 13 - Appropriating Locke Today
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flag Lecture 22 - Democracy and Majority Rule (I)
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flag Lecture 24 - Democratic Justice: Theory
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flag Lecture 25 - Democratic Justice: Applications
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