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The author provides a famous example demonstrating how individual preferences can lead to aggregate results. He shows that a "slight-but-not-malicious preference to have neighbors of the same race eventually leads to completely segregated populations" [1]. This example illustrates the book's core theme: how individual decisions and actions can result in significant, unintended consequences for a large group [1].
The passages describe the book's subject matter as an examination of how individual decisions combine to form unexpected aggregate results, and how small individual decisions often lead to significant unintended consequences [1]. However, the specific types of evidence beyond this single example are not detailed in the provided text.
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Title: Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas C. Schelling Description: An examination of how decisions made by individuals combine to form unexpected and often counter-intuitive aggregate results. --- Google Books --- Title: Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas C. Schelling Description: Before Freakonomics and The Tipping Point there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics. "Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals." —official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize Micromotives and Macrobehavior…
ions. The updated edition of this landmark book contains a new preface and the author's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Categories: Business & Economics Pages: 288 Snippet: The updated edition of this landmark book contains a new preface and the author's Nobel Prize acceptance speech.