SOSC 4040 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ultimatum Game, Kantian Ethics, Rational Agent

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 4040
• Professor: Allan Greenbaum

Document Summary

Respondent support representing graham morehead in support of the respondent (ceo"s and the candle problem) Proposer, representing a neo-classical or neolibertarian economist (according to various authors read in the course) Proposer support, representing a neo-classical and libertarian economist supporting the proposer. (according to various authors read in the course) T. a represents an objective (and irrelevant) character who facilitates the initiation and conclusion of the discussion. The play is set in a tutorial, where the topic or theme of that week"s university lecture is the question of incentives. proposer and respondent are students in a debate about incentives as motivation for market based decisions. Because the t. a is happy there is active conversation going on, she does not intervene. Proposer is trying to convince respondent that incentives are exclusively linked to external incentives that are, specifically but not limited to, money, power and status. However, respondent is witty, therefore he is able to highlight the flaws in proposers argument.