Political Disagreement causes Government Shutdown
It has been 17 years since the United States’s last shutdown, but we have managed to do it again. Early Tuesday, October 1st, a divided Congress could not come to an agreement on expenditures for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare. As a result, all ‘non-essential’ government programs have been temporarily halted, […]
Drug Hoarding and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’
In the article, Drug Hoarding and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’, John Paulos relates the prisoner’s dilemma to stockpiling Cipro antibiotics in order to combat anxiety and anthrax. Instead of the conventional confess or not confess, there is the choice of stockpiling or not stockpiling. There is a greater individual benefit to stockpiling because you will have the […]