POL203Y5 Lecture Notes - Collective Action, Red Wine, Nash Equilibrium
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The 13 colonies had two often competing motivations: slavery existed everywhere, but to varying degrees, the british eventually became intolerable, but possibly by mistake. 2. 5 million during revolution, surrounded by the spanish, french & british colonies. Took 170 years, from founding of james town to the revolution. The colonies were founded on different reasons, economic, commercial exploitation & religious motivations. Variation of slavery; geographic, economic cirumstances, lots of agriculture for cotton, more likely that states of new england. Politics: study of how goods are distributed, how & why. Assuming people are strategic, people have preferences in relation to what others do. In the pursuit of an outcome, class students on a rank, have to be better than others. P references strategy but, institutions matter most. Preferences: the things we prefer, they are always relational, they should be rational. Your preferences are complete, don"t have to say how strong, you cant say i don"t know.
