Rational Choice

Spring 2005

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

April 5
Arthur Robson (Simon Fraser University, B.C., Canada)
"Why We Grow Large and then Grow Old: Biology, Economics and Mortality"

April 26
Richard Posner and Luis Gariciano (University of Chicago)
"Intelligence Reform Since 9/11: An Organizational Economics Perspective"

May 10
Roger Myerson (University of Chicago)
"Justice, Institutions, and Multiple Equilibria"

May 17
James Redfield (University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought)
The Origins of Monetization

May 24
Jon Elster (Columbia University)
"Responses to Uncertainty - Terrorism and Civil Liberties"



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