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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 Hardin based his research on?
2. What does Schelling say about Christmas cards?
3. What does Schelling say about segregation?
4. What does Schelling say governs each decision?
5. What does Schelling say is the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does Schelling say the shop owner's exchange of a bicycle for $150 of the customer's money--when the owner paid $90 for the bicycle--an equal exchange?
2. What is the behavioral model that would make arms reduction a self-fulfilling prophecy?
3. What would be the consequence of parents preferring boys to girls, in Schelling's analysis?
4. How does Schelling say technology has changed the number of genetic outcomes that can result when a man and a woman conceive?
5. What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
6. What does Schelling say a closed model can be used for with regard to prospective college students?
7. What are the two important components of idealized models of integration and segregation, in Schelling's analysis?
8. What is a closed model, in Schelling's analysis?
9. What behavior does discrimination allow Schelling to model?
10. What distinction does Schelling draw between decisions other people have made?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Schelling writes that groups tend to gather around a primary distinction, but secondary distinctions still exist beneath the surface. Select a case study from history or from current events and describe the interplay between the dominant identifier and the relationship between sub-identifications within that group.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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