O-Ring model
The O-Ring theory of development deals with how firms and economies are organized when one weak link in the production process can destory the entire value of production. The model has implications for wages, inequality, and big push theories of development.
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At 19:28 the video mentions that talent likes talent and that there is a multiplier effect. This reminded me of a book I recently read by a UC Berkeley economist Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs, He, essentially, is making a similar point coming from a geographical perspective. Have you read it? Am I off base?
Yes, I have read Moretti's book and I agree that he is interested in explaining some of the same phenomena such as small differences having large effects, agglomeration, talent likes talent and so forth. It would be interesting to compare different explanations for the same phenomena to see if they made testable predictions about other phenomena that could distinguish the theories.
So is there any empirical evidence supporting this O-Ring Model?
Yu, Orazem: (http://goo.gl/pHCHx) - "O-Ring Production on U.S. Hog Farms..." supports the model
Dalmazzo, Pekkarinen, Scaramozzino: "O-ring Wage Inequality" (http://goo.gl/F8Mrr) - supports the model
Google Scholar didn't readily produce studies that tested the model and didn't find support for it
Indeed,this is a VERY interesting lecture,with an important insight into the oft-discussed issue of inequality.
How much insight is their into the economics of culture-specifically corporate or institutional culture?What is out there to look at?
In my limited understanding,culture may be thought of as emerging from a coordination game.What might game theory
tell us about culture of the firm,etc?
Thank you!