Peace Is a Public Good, Until It's Gone | Bangkok
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0:00A: Another ultimate example of a public good for me is peace. My name is Archan. And so for me, public goods, they live on a spectrum. I really like the term network good because it allows to reason better about who actually benefits from that. So you can look at the level of the family, the community, the nation-state, and then the world. Like the air is one of the ultimate examples of public good. But once you have like 40 people locked in a small room, suddenly air is not really a public good in economics terms because somebody can detract you from consuming that good. Another ultimate example of what public good for me is peace. So once, like in a certain territory or nation or Whatever the network it is, piece is no more. Everybody’s affected right away. And everybody’s stressed. Everybody loses their loved ones.
