Micromotives and Macrobehavior
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Micromotives and Macrobehavior is a seminal book by economist Thomas Schelling that explores how individual choices and incentives can unintentionally produce complex and often surprising collective social patterns.
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| Coleman boat model of micro–macro link | 1 |
| Micromotives and Macrobehavior canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17302943 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Micromotives and Macrobehavior Context triple: [Thomas Schelling, notableWork, Micromotives and Macrobehavior]
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order is a popular science book that explores how synchronization and collective behavior arise spontaneously in systems ranging from fireflies and heart cells to power grids and social networks.
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The Complexity of Cooperation
The Complexity of Cooperation is a scholarly work by Avi Wigderson that explores how ideas from computational complexity theory illuminate strategic behavior, game theory, and cooperative problem-solving.
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Foundations of Social Theory
Foundations of Social Theory is a major sociological work that systematically develops a rational choice framework to explain how individual actions generate larger social structures and institutions.
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D.
Beyond the Invisible Hand
Beyond the Invisible Hand is a book by economist Kaushik Basu that critically examines free-market ideology and argues for a more ethically grounded and institutionally aware approach to economics.
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Explaining Social Behavior
Explaining Social Behavior is a book by social scientist Jon Elster that offers a comprehensive, analytically rigorous account of how rational-choice theory and psychological mechanisms can be used to understand human actions and social phenomena.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Micromotives and Macrobehavior Target entity description: Micromotives and Macrobehavior is a seminal book by economist Thomas Schelling that explores how individual choices and incentives can unintentionally produce complex and often surprising collective social patterns.
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A.
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order is a popular science book that explores how synchronization and collective behavior arise spontaneously in systems ranging from fireflies and heart cells to power grids and social networks.
-
B.
The Complexity of Cooperation
The Complexity of Cooperation is a scholarly work by Avi Wigderson that explores how ideas from computational complexity theory illuminate strategic behavior, game theory, and cooperative problem-solving.
-
C.
Foundations of Social Theory
Foundations of Social Theory is a major sociological work that systematically develops a rational choice framework to explain how individual actions generate larger social structures and institutions.
-
D.
Beyond the Invisible Hand
Beyond the Invisible Hand is a book by economist Kaushik Basu that critically examines free-market ideology and argues for a more ethically grounded and institutionally aware approach to economics.
-
E.
Explaining Social Behavior
Explaining Social Behavior is a book by social scientist Jon Elster that offers a comprehensive, analytically rigorous account of how rational-choice theory and psychological mechanisms can be used to understand human actions and social phenomena.
- F. None of above. chosen
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linked to: Micromotives and Macrobehavior