ECON 200 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Alexis De Tocqueville, Married People, Business Cycle
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5: the respite of the well-ordered match: love, music, and even your dog. Matching influences: ex. music, 1/3 of urban married people live within 5 blocks. Rising numbers of online dating: matching of income, education, and socioeconomic background between couples. Matching improves our living standards: easier to find and evaluate what you want and need. Internet: replicating and intensifying segregation based on our matching. Cements segregation, stasis, and complacency of the successful. Downsides of matching: pursuing a good match doesn"t mean you end up with a good match, all about behavior. Trying to win not to find a match. Internet doesn"t help them feel as if they"ve won. 6: why americans stopped rioting and legalized marijuana. Why don"t we riot anymore: more bureaucratized, more safety obsessed, don"t like disruption, constraints on money. Encourages peace: bureaucracy on side of complacent class. 7: how a dynamic society looks and feels. Not as many rags to riches stories in america.
