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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a binary choice?

2. Why does Schelling say hockey players resist wearing helmets, when they already know they are safer?

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

4. How does Schelling say family size would be affected by his hypothetical case?

5. What choice does Schelling say eugenics gave parents?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Schelling's Micromotives and Macrobehavior is grounded in the opposition between the individual's feelings and motives, and the aggregate society's behavior. How does Schelling resolve the tension or opposition between these two things? Can a social scientist analyze aggregate behavior from an aggregate perspective? What happens to the individual in the model for the society? Does this cause a problem for Schelling or any social scientist as someone who is describing phenomena that can only be seen in the aggregate?

Essay Topic 2

What do Schelling's models of human behavior tell us about human nature? Do they tell us different things about individuals than they tell us about society? Do they delve into psychology, or are they still essentially economic in nature?

Essay Topic 3

Tolerance is a desirable quality to identify in an economic model of behavior, but how would you define the value of tolerance in Schelling's models of integration? What would you know it by? What factors would indicate a 'tolerant' neighborhood or society?

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