Micromotives and Macrobehavior

Name: Micromotives and Macrobehavior
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ISBN: 9780393329469

ISBN-10: 0393329461

ISBN-13: 9780393329469

Edition: 2006

Authors: Thomas C. Schelling, Thomas Schelling

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Before Freakonomics and The Tipping Point there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics. "Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals."official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the stories it tells feel just as fresh today. And the subject of these storieshow small and seemingly meaningless decisions and actions by individuals often lead to significant unintended consequences for a large groupis more important than ever. In one famous example, Thomas C. Schelling shows that a slight-but-not-malicious preference to…

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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished University Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.



Preface to the New Edition


Acknowledgments



Micromotives and Macrobehavior



The Inescapable Mathematics of Musical chairs



Thermostats, Lemons, and Other Families of Models



Sorting and Mixing: Race and Sex



Sorting and Mixing: Age and Income



Choosing our Children's Genes



Hockey Helmets, Daylight Saving, and Other Binary Choices



An Astonishing Sixty Years: The Legacy of Hiroshima (The Nobel Lecture)


Index