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2016-05-06

  A talk with Raoul Junior Lorfils

Raoul is a student and reporter from Haiti. I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with him on the Haiti political situation, the economy, life in the border region along the Dominican Republic, as well as what can be done to make life better in the ...
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2016-03-24

  Don Swanz from his class on Property Rights and importance of legal and economic institutions

Don Swanz is a lawyer and a law professor at St. Bonaventure University. During the #BonasandBeyond program in October of 2015, he gave this lecture. (translation by Djemson Jeudy)He discuses the importance of property rights, trade agreements, the WTO...
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2016-03-22

  Bryan McCannon's Poverty and Microfinance presentation

Bryan McCannon presented on poverty and micro loans at St. Bonaventure University. While his talk focused on Uganda, the themes play well in many poorer nations around the globe.I apologize for the poor quality of the recording. I recorded it on my pho...
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2016-03-18

  Interview with Zachary Rodriguez

Zachary Rodriguez of Embrace it Africa and a MBA student at St. Bonaventure University talks about the importance of economics, about microloans, development and more in this interesting interview.===Embrace it Africa:http://www.embraceitafrica.org/===...
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2016-03-17

  Week 2: Online Economics

Opportunity costs are at the heart of this lesson and most of economics. Opportunity costs are based on the idea that you cannot do two things at once. For instance, the cost of working is the leisure time foregone.Put in a more famous way--you cannot ...
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2016-03-08

  Class audio for lesson 1 and 2

A very brief look at what is economics and capitalism. the notes to accompany this are at :https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I2DES9iV9Zixkz5s9j3S-aGr2u7Q4kWtQCwc92bXPyQ/pubandhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1XeU6KLrypMq_Vg_rudW9AhDPT3hXFTHUpZcJF6A...
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2016-03-08

  What technology will we be using in class?

We will be using 4 main types of technology for the course:Trello (http://trello.com) https://helpified.com/paths/using-trello-for-student-projectsGoogle Drive https://helpified.com/paths/introduction-to-google-drive-and-google-office-applicationHelpif...
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2016-03-08

  Welcome to #BonasandBeyond's Economic Foundation class!

Here is an overview of the class.In the audio, I describe what the class will be like, the need to participate, how the class will not be about memorization, how we will learn about economics and the Mankiw's 10 Principles of Economics.
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2016-03-08

  Who is Jim Mahar?

I teach finance at St. Bonaventure University and am the leader and founder of BonaResponds. I am also the co-founder/VicePresident of HaitiScholarships.orgHere is my SBU page: http://www.sbu.edu/about-sbu/people-of-sbu/faculty-profiles/mahar-james (ou...
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2015-10-08

  Environmental Science-DON'T BURN PLASTIC-by Jerry Godbout

Burning plastics is a problem in Haiti. Chemistry professor Jerry Godbout lays out why you should not burn plastic(NOTE: I only recorded 45 min of the lecture because my HD was full)
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