News and Workshops / Rational Choice

Rational Choice

Fall 2004

This workshop meets every other Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Ro 329.
Papers can also be accessed directly from http://home.uchicago.edu/~becker/
For questions please contact Sandra Wesolowski

Oct 7
Michael Shermer (Publisher, Skeptic Magazine)
"The Biological and Psychological Origins and Nature of Morality"

Oct 26
Eli Berman (UCSD) and David Laiton (Stanford University)
"Rational Martyrs vs. Hard Targets: Evidence on the Tactical Use of Suicide Attacks"

Nov 16
Balazs Szentes (Department of Economics, University of Chicago); William Tait, Discussant (Professor of Philosophy at Chicago) SS 401; 7:30--9:00 P.M.
“An Impossibility Theorem of Self-Belief”

Nov 23
Charles Larmore (University of Chicago)
"Liberal and Republican Conceptions of Freedom"


Economics Workshops and Seminars:
500 Economic Theory
512 Econometrics
516 Applied Dynamic Economics
530 Money & Banking
590 Applications of Economics
Rational Choice
592 Economics Policy and Public Finance