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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say the measles story is an example of?

2. What does the critical mass provide for the individual?

3. What does Schelling say constrains the social scientist's model for race segregation?

4. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?

5. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Schelling say is the consequence of inadequate analysis of participants in an economic system?

2. What are discrete variables and continuous variables?

3. What is an externality?

4. Under what circumstances does Schelling say that chromosomal selection could be beneficial?

5. What is the relationship between behaviors that can be modeled and free will, in Schelling's analysis?

6. What is the lemons model?

7. How does Schelling use mathematical formulations to express his economic models of behavior?

8. How does Schelling describe segregation?

9. What is an unconditional preference?

10. What aspect of the history of nuclear weapons does Schelling describe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Schelling's models seem to swing back and forth between literary metaphors and statistical methods. Is one predominant? Is one more or less reliable?

Essay Topic 3

What are the risks and benefits of using numerical analysis in models of human behavior?

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