Answer the following questions based on the book.
1. What is a counterexample to the rule that economic agents are relatively fixed?
2. As a constraint against self-interest, how does “commitment” differ from sympathy?
3. What is meant by the phrase “the framing of economic decisions”?
4. What is a “positional good”?
5. Why are economic laws more like traffic laws and less like physical or natural laws?
6. Does Schwartz agree that work must be a “disutility”?
1. What is free-riding? Give a clear example with your definition.
2. What is a “practice”? Given this (Schwartz’s) definition, would teaching count as a practice? Defend your answer.
