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Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 15 — Risk and Insurance

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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses the ways in which risk is costly to the poor and if insurance is beneficial to this population. Recorded 2011.

Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 20 — Savings Part 1

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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee covers the realities of saving and borrowing for the world's poor. Recorded 2011.

Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 18—Permanent Magnets

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Topics include: permanent magnets; omni vs. cardioid; first transatlantic cable; Norbert Wiener and first use of network synthesis; Kirchhoff's laws; magnetic materials and Alnico; future of electrical systems in auto...

Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 08 — Constraints in Search and Domain Reduction

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Recorded October 6th, 2010.

Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 05 — Search: Optimal, Branch and Bound, A*

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Recorded September 22, 2010.

Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 15 — Learning: Near Misses, Felicity Conditions

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Recorded November 3, 2010.

Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 05 — Is There a Nutrition-Based Poverty Trap?

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In this lecture, Prof. Esther Duflo covers malnutriton and the nutrition-based poverty trap, including the relationship between productivity and nutrition. Recorded 2011.