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Rational Choice

Spring 2004

This workshop meets every other Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in SS 401.
Papers can also be accessed directly from http://home.uchicago.edu/~becker/
For questions please contact Sandra Wesolowski

April 6
Richard Zeckhauser (Harvard University)
"Risk Asssessments and Preferred Policies for Combating Terrorism".
Paper 1 (Sacrificing. . .), Paper 2 (Hindsight. . .)

May 4
Luis Rayo and Gary Becker (University of Chicago)
"Evolutionary Efficiency and the Hedonic Treadmill"

May 11
John Searle (University of California, Berkeley)
"The Classical Model of Rationality and its Weaknesses"

May 18
No Meeting.

May 25
Edward Glaeser (Harvard University)
"Psychology and the Market"

June 8
Andrew Oswald (University of Warwick)
"Rank Dependence in Employees' Wellbeing"

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