Comment: Modeling Social Interdependence: Is It in the Structure or in Our Hearts?
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We want to congratulate Steven Durlauf on a most interesting and provocative paper. He reminds us that modeling the social interaction among and the social interdependence of individuals is a challenging task that is at the core of social science theory. As James Coleman (1990) has argued, understanding the link between the micro and the macro is one of the keys to the development of social science theory. The social interaction model proposed by Durlauf is certainly a welcomed effort in this direction. In this comment we will focus on one specific question: Why are individuals' behaviors interdependent in Durlauf's model. We examine two possibilities: (1) the external structure of the choice problem people face induces externalities; or (2) individuals' "intrinsic" utilities are a func-
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