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Describe the Prisoner’s Dilemma and relate it to real world problems. What critical assumption does it make that often does not hold? (Hint: think Coase and locality)  

Tumor-associated antigens composed of high-molecular-weight mucin-like glycoproteins include:

How are fractals like organizations? How does this relate to “economic” vs “administrative” man? 

Choose one or both of the following questions to respond to with 200+ words total.  Which assignment challenged you the most, and why?  If you could give advice to a future student taking this course, what would it be? 

Define “positive” and “negative” feedback and “open” and “closed” systems and relate these concepts to social and biological equilibria.  

Relate neoclassical economics to the Newtonian worldview. Explain the criticism of F.A Hayek, those of H Simon, and the behavioral economists and how these relate to computation.

Define “externalities” and “transaction costs”. What are the implications for  sustainability? 

Characterize complex systems and give at least two examples; one social and one biological. Characterize them in terms of “near-decomposability” and “computational irreducibility” and describe how they relate to the Newtonian worldview.  

What is the IUPAC name of the compound shown? chem 116 exam 1 question 8 image.JPG

Which functional group does NOT contain oxygen?