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Rational Choice

Spring 2007

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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April 10, 2007
Seminar is canceled due to speaker's illness.

May 8, 2007
Ross Stolzenberg, University of Chicago
"Politicized Departure from the United States Supreme Court"

May 15
Dan Brock, Harvard Medical School
Health Care Resource Prioritization and Rationing - Why is it so Difficult?

May 22, 2007
William Wimsatt, University of Chicago
"Inconsistencies, Optimization and Satisficing: Steps Towards a Philosophy for Limited Beings"
"Optimization, Consistency, and Kluged Adaptations in Evolutionary Theory: Can Maximization Survive?"
"A Comparison of Features: Maximizing vs. Satisficing" (Table)

May 24, 2007
Ed Glaeser, Harvard University
"Aggregation Reversals and the Social Formation of Beliefs"