GEOG 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Comparative Statics, Polytheism, Encyclical
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Ps m122b / env m161 8-12-2015 (prof. lohmann) How to run an experiment (prompt for paper #2) Complete online 8/10-8/17 (diversity survey stragglers need to complete that first) Read book chapter ethical principles in business from manuel velasquez"s ethics textbook. Read book chapter the limits of economics from dale jamieson"s reason in a dark age. Optionally, read article you kill it, you eat it, and other lessons from my thrifty. Get going on paper #2, which is due next wednesday; groupwork allowed. Can we do something about it? (natural and technological constraints) Technological constraints (sun => coal and oil => technological magic bullet?) Utilitarianism (cost-benefit analysis, opportunity costs, sensitivity to discount rates) Act now vs. wait and see, pascal"s wager, one world ethics. Will we do something about it? (psychological, cultural, political, and economic constraints) Wisdom of crowds, logic of failure (science, newspaper) Evolutionary psychology and cultural theory (mass public, mass media)
