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

Short Answer Questions

1. What hope does Schelling express for the future of nuclear arms?

2. What process does Schelling imagine parents choosing to undergo, in his hypothetical example?

3. What does Schelling say parents are most concerned with in the case of vaccination?

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

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

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

Write a detailed review of Micromotives and Macrobehavior. What are the book's main themes and preoccupations? What are its methods? How does it achieve its intentions? Where does it fail to?

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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