Class #6: Explaining the Rescue Fire and Hunting. Primary Characteristics and Definition of Public Good Rescue Fire Hunting

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1 lass #6: Explaining the Rescue Fire and Hunting 1. Primary haracteristics and efinition of Public Good Rescue Fire Hunting 2. 3.

2 RESUE FIRE TAKE ONE Player #1 Player #2 Outcome benefit cost rank benefit cost rank -c/2 -c/2 -c 0 0 -c

3 RESUE FIRE TAKE TWO Player #1 Player #2 Outcome benefit cost rank benefit cost rank -c/2 -c/2 -c 0 0 -c

4 RESUE FIRE TAKE THREE Player #1 Player #2 Outcome benefit cost rank benefit cost rank -c/2 -c/2 -c 0 0 -c

5 Illustrative Quotes: 34 put on green branches; we ve got to have special people looking after the fire. Any day there may be a ship out there; Jack I will split the choir into two groups and we ll be responsible for keeping fire going; let fire burn out for now since it will soon be night the fire was dead. They saw that straight away; saw what they had really known down on the beach when the smoke of home had beckoned. The fire was out, smokeless, and dead; the watchers were gone. A pile of unused fuel lay ready; they let the bloody fire go out 69 About the fire. The fire is the most important thing on the island. How can we ever be rescued expect by luck, if we don t keep the fire going? Is a fire too much for us to make? Look at us! How many are we? We can t keep a fire going to make smoke. on t you understand? an t you see we ought to ought to die before we let the fire go out? You hunters! You can laugh! But I tell you the smoke is more important than the pig, however often you kill one. o all of you see? He spread his arms wide and turned to the whole triangle. We got to make smoke up there or die. 124 I m scared. Not of the beast. I mean I m scared of that too. But nobody else understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don t take it you ll die you would wouldn t you? Without the smoke signal we ll die here? We can t keep one fire going. And they don t care. And what s more I don t sometimes. Suppose I got like the others not caring, what would become of us? 126 the fire s the most important thing. Without the fire we can t be rescued. I d like to put on war paint and be a savage. But we must keep the fire burning. The fire s the most important thing on the island, because, because oh yes without the fire we can t be rescued. So we must stay by the fire and make smoke. 146 how else are we going to be rescued of course, if we don t make smoke... we ve got to make smoke and more smoke. But we can t keep it going. Look at that. The fire was dying on them. Two to mind the fire, that s twelve hours a day. We can light it every morning. Nobody s going to see smoke in the dark. It was different when the fire was up there.

6 PIG HUNTING TAKE ONE Player #1 Player #2 Outcome benefit cost rank benefit cost rank -c/2 -c/2 -c 0 0 -c

7 PIG HUNTING TAKE TWO Player #1 Player #2 Outcome benefit cost rank benefit cost rank -c/2 -c/2 -c 0 0 -c

8 EXPLAINING THE HOIE BETWEEN MAINTAINING THE RESUE FIRE, PIG HUNTING, AN OING NOTHING 1. Sketch what happens in the text 2. Assume i) there are two players ii) each player has three alternatives cooperate on fire ( F ) defect () cooperate on hunting ( H ) 3. there are NINE theoretical outcomes mutual cooperation { F F }{ H H } mutual defection {} various non-cooperative outcomes 4. there are nine actual outcomes fire burns, both players cooperate pig hunting, both players cooperate do nothing fire burns, player 1 keeps it going/player 2 defects fire burns, player 1 keeps it going/player 2 hunts fire burns, player 2 keeps it going/player 1 defects fire burns, player 2 keeps it going/player 1 hunts player 1 hunts / player 2 defects player 2 hunts / player 1 defects 5. Requirements: etermine the nature of the good being provided or pursued Is it jointly supplied? That is, does my consumption of the good reduce the available supply? Is it feasible to exclude someone who does not cooperate in the production from consuming the good once it is produced? does the production of the good require cooperation in either effort or shared resources?

9 Pig Hunting ~Jointness of Supply ~Non-feasible Exclusion Rescue Fire Jointness of Supply Non-feasible Exclusion No Jointness of Production Assess benefits and costs F F F F H F H H F H H H etermine Rank Order/onstruct Game

10 S,S W,B B,W T,T B,B W,T T,W T,T Player #2 P SH P S,S W,B W,W Player #1 B,W T,T T,W SH W,W W,T B,B

EXAMINATION ONE. I. Explanation, Theory, and the Scientific Method [10 points]

EXAMINATION ONE. I. Explanation, Theory, and the Scientific Method [10 points] PLS 200 Prof. Charles W. Ostrom INTROUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE 28 September 2001 EXAMINATION ONE I. Explanation, Theory, and the Scientific Method [10 points] 1. Identify the four main goals of the behavioral