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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling say the Russian's space program affected America's space program?

2. What does Schelling say governs each decision?

3. What fear does Schelling say informs the behavior that is ingrained in people's decisions where to sit in a theater?

4. How does Schelling describe daylight savings time?

5. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What hope does Schelling have for the future of nuclear weapons?

2. What experience got Schelling thinking about distribution?

3. What example does Schelling use to illustrate an externality?

4. What does Schelling mean when he says that certain behaviors have the character of mathematical "identical truisms"?

5. What is one consequence Schelling describes of parents being able to choose the sex of their children?

6. How does Schelling describe the role of the social scientist?

7. What aspect of the history of nuclear weapons does Schelling describe?

8. What factors influence how effective a proposition is, in Schelling's analysis?

9. Where does the equivalence of terms in an economic break down, in Schelling's analysis?

10. What distinction does Schelling draw between decisions other people have made?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the risks and benefits of using numerical analysis in models of human behavior?

Essay Topic 2

Schelling writes that groups tend to gather around a primary distinction, but secondary distinctions still exist beneath the surface. Select a case study from history or from current events and describe the interplay between the dominant identifier and the relationship between sub-identifications within that group.

Essay Topic 3

How has Schelling's economic modeling changed in an age of data mining and news aggregators and other digital techniques for gathering and sifting enormous amounts of information? Is it that more people have access to aggregate patterns? Or that new kinds of control are possible now?

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