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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling ultimately say about choosing the sex of one's baby?

2. How does Schelling say chromosomal modification might be useful?

3. What example does Schelling use to explain the closed system with a density enhancement?

4. What is the central issue in the case Schelling presents regarding hockey helmets?

5. What does Schelling say can be included in closed models?

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

Choose an event out of a newspaper or magazine, describe the primary model at work in it, and describe the underlying assumptions as well as the externalities and extra factors that are evident in the event.

Essay Topic 3

Schelling describes underlying assumptions as being difficult to account for in economic models of social behavior. What methods does Schelling use for making this accounting, and where does his social science begin to need psychological language for unconscious behaviors? In other words, what behaviors do Schelling's models still fail to account for, and is there a point beyond which these economic models cannot go, in estimating individual behavior or accounting for micromotives behind macrobehavior? Will there always be an ultimate 'theory of no guarantees' behind the models?

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