Rational Choice
This workshop meets every other Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Ro 329.
For questions please contact Virginia Bova.
Spring 2012
March 27
Robert J. Barro (Harvard University)
"Saints Marching In, 1590-2009"
April 17
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Rationality, Innovation, and Growth in the Greek World, 800-300 BCE"
"Wealthy Hellas"
"Public Action and Rational Choice in Classical Greek Political Theory"
May 2 (This is an alternate date).
Coren Lee Apicella (Harvard University)
"What can hunter-gatherers tell us about the origins of social, economic and attractiveness preferences?"
"Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers"
"Facial averageness and attractiveness in an isolated population of hunter-gatherers"
May 22
Debra Satz (Stanford University)
"This Little Kidney Went to Market? Ethical Issues in the Supply and Demand of Human Kidneys"
