Lecture 1: Introduction to Power and Politics in Today’s World

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends the lecture series as a foundational, wide-ranging grounding in modern global politics.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

YaleCourses

Topic

modern political science

Format

course

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• These seem to be the ground rules for a high school debate, not sure if they are adequate to the troubles in these times. First there is a body of work on political "science" which is not quite physics or chemistry but is closer to …

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• I think the primary distinction is between government expenditure on private production and government production. While in many cases governments still pay for things, they're not running them. The idea of course being that a profit motive improves efficiency, but of course it is competition …