Reading list and exam for “Conflict, Coalition and Strategy”, Schelling (1970)

I am  generally not jealous of Bob’s Harvard undergraduate education, but I’ll admit there are a good half-dozen economics and politics courses in my own Yale training that I would have gladly traded for that single Schelling semester in 1970. When you plot a smooth graph of your overall grade, taking all three factors into account–quality of your paper, quality of the competing paper, time taken away from your other courses–you get the following “contours” of  overall net score as a function of the time you  devote to your papers. Explain what “ritual” means in this context and identify its role in the following topics of Economics 1030:

Source: Personal copy of course syllabus and final examination shared for transcription at Economics in the Rear-View Mirror by   (Harvard, 1974; M.I.T., 1980).

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