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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 say would be the result of his hypothetical case?

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

3. What is Schelling's tone in his discussion of nuclear weapons?

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

5. What does Schelling say about an equilibrium division of the population?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Schelling seems to be making the point that segregation may be a social problem, but it is being acted out by individuals. Is his account complete, or is there an extent to which social behaviors are influenced by institutions and ideologies and unofficial policies? What role do these things play in segregation?

Essay Topic 2

Which has a bigger effect on society, the choices people can see, or the choices they make that cannot be seen?

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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