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Plausible with two villages, but would a spontaneous cooperative solution emerge with 155?
Commented Apr 23, 2011 on The economics of a parable, explained at Dani Rodrik's weblog
The economics of a parable, explained
I thought it would be useful to clarify the economic theory that lies behind my parable on the global economy. The book covers these issues at length, so I thought that the links with the parable, coming at the end as it does, would be obvious to the reader. Obviously this need not be the case...
Ditto read book, ditto still have questions, esp about this parable. I can understand why the optimal toll ceiling negotiated under the World Tolls Organisation could be non-zero, but it's not clear to me why a cooperative solution is likely to emerge spontaneously, absent some improbably helpful forms of village-level political decision-making.
Commented Apr 22, 2011 on The economics of a parable, explained at Dani Rodrik's weblog
The economics of a parable, explained
I thought it would be useful to clarify the economic theory that lies behind my parable on the global economy. The book covers these issues at length, so I thought that the links with the parable, coming at the end as it does, would be obvious to the reader. Obviously this need not be the case...
I understand that, but the parable doesn't end with multilateralism of any description saving the day. It ends with unilateral tolls ensuring a happy ending.
Commented Apr 21, 2011 on A parable for the world economy at Dani Rodrik's weblog
A parable for the world economy
(This is the Afterword that appears in my book The Globalization Paradox. It is an attempt to state the book's central argument in the form of a bedtime story.) Once upon a time there was a little fishing village at the edge of a lake. The villagers were poor, living off the fish they caught an...
What SL said. We could call it, I dunno, the World Tolls Organisation or something, get some French dude in to run it.
Commented Apr 21, 2011 on A parable for the world economy at Dani Rodrik's weblog
A parable for the world economy
(This is the Afterword that appears in my book The Globalization Paradox. It is an attempt to state the book's central argument in the form of a bedtime story.) Once upon a time there was a little fishing village at the edge of a lake. The villagers were poor, living off the fish they caught an...
What happens if the fishing village along the coast builds a similar road but does not charge a toll, thus seizing the dried fish trade?
Commented Apr 21, 2011 on A parable for the world economy at Dani Rodrik's weblog
A parable for the world economy
(This is the Afterword that appears in my book The Globalization Paradox. It is an attempt to state the book's central argument in the form of a bedtime story.) Once upon a time there was a little fishing village at the edge of a lake. The villagers were poor, living off the fish they caught an...
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