Notes from CDS
Don't want LOR to cover what LO misses
Cover all speaker points
Act like you know your points
Strategy
LO will pretty much set the round
Thick vs. thin cases
Lots of possible points to talk about
Counter-case if you want to avoid talking about too many things
When you opp straight - push PM into a corner
Time period frame
Policy
If debate is becoming more muddled and less fair, you can set the record straight...
Not a reasonable caveat
The logic of the government case, justify... setting up an artificial barrier
Tight cases:
Some people are sadistic and shouldn't be
Fundamental Christian perspective which I am sure you do not share but you've left me no other choice/way.
Don't challenge the gov assumption...
Shift the debate - basketball policy on women/men team to gender inequality.
Opp arg. should be independent points (not rebuttals)
Analyze gov's p.o.v
Assumption of gov.
Identify - sufficiently removed that it requires explanation / elaboration / attack, it isn't a rebuttal
Damn their philosophical perspective...
Utility, morals, social welfare.
Policies always & usually have unintended consequences.
Who are they, what do they want?
MO's job is partly to give "POI" for PM speech.
On case:
Flows - listen for justification - factually inaccurate? False assumptions
If no. seems to be pulled out of thin air: Number is far more advantageous to them.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Why does a given savings rate translate into different growth rate?
History and expectation work their way through - complementaries & increasing returns.
Some goods have network externalities
Adoption costs. no. of adopters linked with multiple equilibriums.
QWERTY is already there by the advantage of historical precedence.
Lock-in effects
When an externality is such that the cost of an action increases with the number of adopters, they cannot be responsible for multiple equilibria or historical lock-in.
Historical lock-in occurs only when externalities take the form of complementaries.
Cooperation failure
Economic underdevelopment is the outcome of a massive coordination failure.
Investments can be considered a complementary good.
Coordinated equilibria
Norms are always a hindrance and that conformity can only slow down the pace of development.
Social norms: What individuals can do is tempered by what society thinks is acceptable.
History establishes a status quo.
Coordination failure: The possibility that an economy or more generally, a group of economic agents might be caught in a bad equilibrium when there is another good equilibrium in sight.
Mavericks are important.
Status quo has an important role in determining the successes of new policies. There are gainers and losers relative to the status quo. Not important even if it raises the total pie - overall welfare.
Inverted U-hypothesis
Hirschmann Rothschild described such an increase in an individual's utility (and hence a tolerance of greater inequality) resulting from the improvement in other's economic status as tunnel effect.
The stronger the tunnel effect, the higher the tolerance.
Benefits of development seems to be very unevenly distributed among individuals. Technical progress tends to be biased against unskilled workers initially.
History and expectation work their way through - complementaries & increasing returns.
Some goods have network externalities
Adoption costs. no. of adopters linked with multiple equilibriums.
QWERTY is already there by the advantage of historical precedence.
Lock-in effects
When an externality is such that the cost of an action increases with the number of adopters, they cannot be responsible for multiple equilibria or historical lock-in.
Historical lock-in occurs only when externalities take the form of complementaries.
Cooperation failure
Economic underdevelopment is the outcome of a massive coordination failure.
Investments can be considered a complementary good.
Coordinated equilibria
Norms are always a hindrance and that conformity can only slow down the pace of development.
Social norms: What individuals can do is tempered by what society thinks is acceptable.
History establishes a status quo.
Coordination failure: The possibility that an economy or more generally, a group of economic agents might be caught in a bad equilibrium when there is another good equilibrium in sight.
Mavericks are important.
Status quo has an important role in determining the successes of new policies. There are gainers and losers relative to the status quo. Not important even if it raises the total pie - overall welfare.
Inverted U-hypothesis
Hirschmann Rothschild described such an increase in an individual's utility (and hence a tolerance of greater inequality) resulting from the improvement in other's economic status as tunnel effect.
The stronger the tunnel effect, the higher the tolerance.
Benefits of development seems to be very unevenly distributed among individuals. Technical progress tends to be biased against unskilled workers initially.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Hypothetical world -- opp choice/ not hypothesized
Time space / not obscure
Straight up - policy type case can be straight up.
Many type of incarnation.
High speaker points Speaking high
Cases are interesting
Makes an interesting point
If judge can predict your round - checklist flow
Government - interesting/ sophisticated
Relevant or even unconditional.
All cases should have an interesting opposition
Ambitious case - counter-intuitive
Lots of burden, overcome prior beliefs
"Cute" cases bad - like gossip girls - are unimportant
Speak lower 0 not serious. Or unpleasant cases
Goes against social norm
What are all the different resolutions I can run off of this case?
Always write case & revaluate it.
Hod you order your points.
How do you turn an article in case?
Seeing case ideas everywhere.
If you're stuck. see them
How to explain difficult concepts to other people.
Thought experiments may be god rhetorically.
Case idea ----> case issues.
Thnk about different things this case could be about.
Eg.
1. Status quo problem
2. Our proposal saves it
3. No other alternatives
Opp -----> showed that this is flawed.
Have construct written out.
What are the assumptions?
Clarify them.
Fewer, concise, arguments are better, with regards to time constraints.
Time space / not obscure
Straight up - policy type case can be straight up.
Many type of incarnation.
High speaker points Speaking high
Cases are interesting
Makes an interesting point
If judge can predict your round - checklist flow
Government - interesting/ sophisticated
Relevant or even unconditional.
All cases should have an interesting opposition
Ambitious case - counter-intuitive
Lots of burden, overcome prior beliefs
"Cute" cases bad - like gossip girls - are unimportant
Speak lower 0 not serious. Or unpleasant cases
Goes against social norm
What are all the different resolutions I can run off of this case?
Always write case & revaluate it.
Hod you order your points.
How do you turn an article in case?
Seeing case ideas everywhere.
If you're stuck. see them
How to explain difficult concepts to other people.
Thought experiments may be god rhetorically.
Case idea ----> case issues.
Thnk about different things this case could be about.
Eg.
1. Status quo problem
2. Our proposal saves it
3. No other alternatives
Opp -----> showed that this is flawed.
Have construct written out.
What are the assumptions?
Clarify them.
Fewer, concise, arguments are better, with regards to time constraints.
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