Hello everybody!
I thought that the experiment, which we
were allowed to take part at today, really deserves a blog entry. That is why I
decided to write about it in the following lines.
We played a game where our class was
split up in two unequal groups. Two thirds of my classmates and I were playing
the role of a developing country and the other part was a wealthy country. We
were asked to produce bread and cars, which had different productions spans in
each country. In the first round we were only allowed to trade with our group.
Unfortunately, that didn't go well. Almost no one was able to trade with
anything, because everyone had a lack of cars and a surplus of bread.
In the second round we were allowed to
trade "internationally", so there was no limitation to only our
country. Because the development country specialized on the bread production, considering
that it was the most efficient for us, we had a shortage of cars. The other
ones fabricated both products relatively equally. Therefore, we couldn’t really
trade with them.
It was very interesting to see how trading
changes, when you do it across the border.
Our little experiment showed how globalisation
should not work out. If everyone has specialized on the products they can make most
efficiently, global trade would have worked out way better.
Thanks for reading my entry!
Roberta.
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