Jurrasic Park
In 1993, millions of people around the world read Michael Crichton's book Jurassic Park or saw the Steven Spielberg movie of the same name. Interestingly, most of them thought the story was about dinosaurs. But Jurassic Park was really all about international political economy.The story of Jurassic Park, for readers who somehow missed the movie or the media blitz, is about a biotechnology firm that discovers how to recover dinosaur DNA from amber-entombed prehistoric blood-sucking insects. The company takes over an island off the coast of Costa Rica and creates a theme park filled with real live dinosaurs that have been cloned from the dinosaur DNA. Soon, however, the dinosaurs get out of control and kill nearly everyone (except the kids, of course) and the Costa Rican air force comes to bomb the island back into the Jurassic Age, killing all the dinosaurs, except maybe Barney and a few other escapees, just in case Jurassic Park II is ever produced. You can see why people would become confused about this story and mistake it for a tale of dinosaurs. It really is about IPE, however (this is clearer in the book than the movie, admittedly). It really is about the fundamental tension and dynamic interaction of states and markets on
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Approximate Word count = 810
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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