Rational Choice

Fall 2006

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
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Archives (Spring 2006)

September 26
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University
"Judicial Fact Discretion"

October 17 
Edward Castronova, Indiana University
"Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games and the Evolution of Institutions"
http://www.wowwiki.com/Dragon_Kill_Points



November 7 
Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, Brown University
"Experientia Docet: Professonals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments"


November 14 
Phil Reny, University of Chicago
"Why sex? and Why only in Pairs?"

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