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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say economic models of human behavior consider?

2. What model of human behavior does Schelling say arms control follows?

3. What does Schelling say the simplest model of a closed system with a density enhancement contains?

4. How does Schelling arrive at the number of genetic possibilities in two people's offspring?

5. What does Schelling say the segregation/integration model identify in addition to population concerns?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Choose an event out of a newspaper or magazine, describe the primary model at work in it, and describe the underlying assumptions as well as the externalities and extra factors that are evident in the event.

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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