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 …

…on IPE that we will discuss in upcoming chapters, and it is the right answer to the question cui bono? under many, but not all, circumstances. Who really benefited from Jurassic Park? If you apply Michael Crichton's ideas, you must answer that the real gainers were Crichton, Spielberg, and the investors who backed the book and the movie that so many people paid so much money to read or view. And that's no dinosaur story.