How to pronounce “schelling” in English

One of them is what kind of work do we want models to do?With the Newton example, and the Schelling example, I wanted to show what I think is a shift for models that are primarily meant to be predictive.They were often tools that we would use as computational devices, for making predictions that had practical consequences.

And whatever that might mean in different context.Third, and this is sort of a Thomas Schelling game theoretical point.As you know in terms of bargaining, to appear to be crazy is often quite rational.

We can proove things about mathematical abstractions, and we might hope that the proof about mathematical abstractions is analogous to something in the real world, but that part'sjust a hope. On the flip side, thinking about Schelling's model, the obvious characteristic of Schelling's modelis that you've just described human beings by a set of rules, that says "I'm going to count the number of my neighbors and be happy

This is the framework at least that I propose to my students.And then we can ask, what kind of work does Schelling's model do?It's not a proof.

It has very little predictive power.I can't tell you, I can't use Schelling's model to tell you how segregated Boston will be in the future.But what it does provide is, kind of a logical argument.

That the only explanation of segregation is racist agents.So the claim, I think, that Schelling would make is that this might be sufficient to cause segregation, but it's not necessary.You don't have to actually have people behaving like this in order to see segregation as the outcome.

I think at least most people find it satisfying.I want to offer, as a point of comparison, this is Thomas Schelling's model of racial segregation.Similarly, it is motivated by a "why" question.

Oh alright, I just, I thought it funny that the people who made that particular, graph, made it as inaccessible as possible.So the question is, do you find the Newtonian explanation of elliptical orbits more satisfying than the Schelling explanation of racial segregation?I think most people do, but I want to poke a little bit at why.