Author Archives: Tony

About Tony

I’m currently a Graduate Student at Georgia Tech’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs for a Master of Science in International Affairs. This summer I’m interning at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Office of Policy Analysis and Research. Previously I graduated from Emory University, where I double-majored in Computer Science and International Studies. My curriculum was very China-heavy, but my passion is for formal modeling, agent-based modeling, statistics and data mining–basically anywhere you can stick numbers into the social sciences. I use these tools to study Conflict and international security issues.

Prospect Theory and the Application to Harvard

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Tony

It occurs to me that my original post regarding the application to Harvard was lacking an important component: namely, prospect theory.  Prospect Theory is an alternative to Rational Choice Theory which attempts to model the manner in which people actually … Continue reading →

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Academic Gobbledygook Makes Sense: A Response to Weissberg

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Tony

If you haven’t read Robert Weissburg’s “Why Academic Gobbledygook Makes Sense,” you really should.  Here’s the short of it in his own words: Imagine a savvy un-PC second-year political science graduate musing about future specialization. With Commissars everywhere the best … Continue reading →

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Rationality and the Application to Harvard

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Tony

I just sent off my application to the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, sealed with a crunchy $105.  That’s a non-trivial sum of money to a poor Master’s student.  And yet I can predict with near certainty that … Continue reading →

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Classical Economics and the Greek Debt Crisis

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Tony

[This was a little paper for my INTA 6202: Comparative Politics course.  The compiled version is also available.] The credit crisis in the Eurozone has sent tremors throughout the global economy, and the world is anxiously waiting to see if … Continue reading →

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Finding the Global Population’s Equilibrium

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Tony

Last night’s post brought me a to final question on the population model with which I’ve been tinkering.  Will my model converge?  There are two ways to answer this question.  The first is kinda sorta calculus.  To start, we must … Continue reading →

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