Essay Questions....
Here are the essay questions, for the essay assignment.
Remember, the assignment is this:
1. Write 1000 words on any TWO of these, your choice.
2. They must be typed, and printed in hardcopy, not emailed.
3. They are due when you show up to take the final, at the BEGINNING of the exam period, unless you have made specific other arrangements with us in advance.
QUESTIONS
1. Hume is famous for arguing that 'ought' cant be derived from 'is'. Yet is that just not what he does in Treatise, book three, deriving the nature of justice from the evolution of a spontaneous order. Reconcile this apparent contradiction.
2. Can the study of actual cases of the emergence of spontaneous orders, such as currency or the price mechanism help us improve the realism of the models of evolutionary game theory so that they will provide better explanations of the social institutions they are intended to shed light on?
3. If Hobbes had read Skyrms, how might it have changes his theory?
4. Does Skyrms really argue against the rationality of rational choice theory,
or against an irrational application of it? Hint, he thinks the former. That is what makes this question challenging.
5. Does Skyrms’ account of the evolution of a commitment to norms of cooperation, fairness and equality, vindicate Locke or Rousseau's concepption of the place of moral obligation and human rights in the state of nature.
6. Under what conditions will the provision of public goods be both spontaneous and reasonably close to optimal? What implications follow for the justification of coercion by the state?
7. Can Darwinian replicator dynamics get us to a unique stable market clearing general equilibrium that the Edgeworth Bowley Box argument proves the existence of for free exhange.
Remember, the assignment is this:
1. Write 1000 words on any TWO of these, your choice.
2. They must be typed, and printed in hardcopy, not emailed.
3. They are due when you show up to take the final, at the BEGINNING of the exam period, unless you have made specific other arrangements with us in advance.
QUESTIONS
1. Hume is famous for arguing that 'ought' cant be derived from 'is'. Yet is that just not what he does in Treatise, book three, deriving the nature of justice from the evolution of a spontaneous order. Reconcile this apparent contradiction.
2. Can the study of actual cases of the emergence of spontaneous orders, such as currency or the price mechanism help us improve the realism of the models of evolutionary game theory so that they will provide better explanations of the social institutions they are intended to shed light on?
3. If Hobbes had read Skyrms, how might it have changes his theory?
4. Does Skyrms really argue against the rationality of rational choice theory,
or against an irrational application of it? Hint, he thinks the former. That is what makes this question challenging.
5. Does Skyrms’ account of the evolution of a commitment to norms of cooperation, fairness and equality, vindicate Locke or Rousseau's concepption of the place of moral obligation and human rights in the state of nature.
6. Under what conditions will the provision of public goods be both spontaneous and reasonably close to optimal? What implications follow for the justification of coercion by the state?
7. Can Darwinian replicator dynamics get us to a unique stable market clearing general equilibrium that the Edgeworth Bowley Box argument proves the existence of for free exhange.
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