Leamer "A Flat World..."
So our first reading will be Edward Leamer's review of The World Is Flat, by Tom Friedman. It might seem odd for us to read a review of a book without reading the actual book, but I think it makes sense in this case.
You should be able to get a copy here (right click and "save link as" to download), post a comment if you have any difficulty. Hold off on substantive comments, though. When it comes time to discuss the reading, I'll write a new post for each general topic of discussion (including an all-purpose residual category).
Now one question is whether we want to augment the review with some other readings on economic geography. I guess we can hold off and add them if it seems like a good idea.
So we'll probably start discussion sometime around December 20th, maybe a few days before. The review is quite long, give yourself a few hours to read it.
You should be able to get a copy here (right click and "save link as" to download), post a comment if you have any difficulty. Hold off on substantive comments, though. When it comes time to discuss the reading, I'll write a new post for each general topic of discussion (including an all-purpose residual category).
Now one question is whether we want to augment the review with some other readings on economic geography. I guess we can hold off and add them if it seems like a good idea.
So we'll probably start discussion sometime around December 20th, maybe a few days before. The review is quite long, give yourself a few hours to read it.
posted by James at 11:39 PM
2 Comments:
I demur from Lemur's opinions, which are without a glemur of wit.
A lemur's-eye view of economic geography: there are two problems, (a) the classic linear programming problem of transport costs; and (b) this thing about relationship building, which is basically a game theoretic problem (cf. Axelrod on iterated priz. dil.). They're related because geography limits the number of suppliers b'se of (a), and a smaller market is more relationship-based as per (b). Low transport costs mean more suppliers and fewer relationships.
Seems plausible. Where's the math? Where are the propositioning lemurs? Why does he think it's glemurous to talk about culture?
Hold your horses! We'll have posts up soon for substantive comments. Actually, I guess there's no reason to hold off, I wanted to give law students time to wrap up their semesters but it can't hurt to get started.
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