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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the status of nuclear weapons under Truman's successor?

2. What does Schelling say might be a demographic consequence of parents choosing their children's traits?

3. In what war did Truman's successor have to decide whether to drop the bomb?

4. What can a closed system with a density enhancement include, in Schelling's analysis?

5. What does Schelling say the government might do to correct the imbalance of male and female babies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where are economic models and their concept of equilibrium useful? What kinds of behaviors do they help social scientists to influence? What kinds of behaviors are not accounted for in these mathematical-economic models?

Essay Topic 2

Which models are most convincing in predicting outcomes, and which models are least convincing? Describe a case where a model lines up neatly with phenomena, and another case where a model fails to account for behavior.

Essay Topic 3

Micromotives and Macrobehavior was written in 1981, when race relations in the U.S. were tense in the aftermath of the civil rights movement of the sixties and seventies. While the book responded to the inflammatory situation by analyzing micromotives, the past three decades have seen race relations change in the U.S. What aspects of Schelling's analysis is still relevant in the atmosphere of race relations today, and what factors have caused them to change or evolve?

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