Keyword: invisible hand

Aborting White Flight (11/1/2000)

An ethnically integrated neighborhood may not come about or persist if it is not reinforced by deliberate intervention.

Keywords: affirmative marketing, fear of integration, invisible hand, neighborhood integration, prisoner's dilemma, property value, white flight

Fat Nation (9/3/2005)

Through innocent pursuit of self-interests, Americans have grown fat with the food industry.

Keywords: Adam Smith, biomass index, calories, fast food, fat, game theory, invisible hand, soft drinks

Games people play (transcript) (3/27/2007)

Narrated lecture on multi-party games involving binary choices.

Keywords: binary choice, congestion, coordination, critical mass, dominant strategy, externality, game theory, gender, invisible hand, nash equilibrium, payoff matrix, prisoner's dilemma, Schelling, stable solution

The Waiting Game (7/27/2000)

Waiting line management employs allocational mechanisms much like those for different economic systems. All these mechanisms seek to combine equity with efficiency in allocating scarce resources.

Keywords: auto title, command economy, invisible hand, line, Memphis, modified command, Northwest, queue, waiting