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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 processes of separation, segregation, sharing, and mixing have in common?

2. What does Schelling say governs each decision?

3. What does Schelling say about segregation?

4. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?

5. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do economic systems resemble ant colonies, in Schelling's analysis?

2. What is a binary choice?

3. According to Schelling, what is not included in his model of integration and segregation?

4. What does Schelling say the thermostat model seeks?

5. What factors influence how effective a proposition is, in Schelling's analysis?

6. What behavior does discrimination allow Schelling to model?

7. How is nuclear arms control a self-fulfilling prophecy, in Schelling's analysis/

8. How does Schelling characterize eugenics?

9. What is one consequence Schelling describes of parents being able to choose the sex of their children?

10. What are some of the other traits Schelling says parents might be able to choose in the future?

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 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 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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