Talk:Spaghetti bowl effect

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But why is it called the spaghetti bowl effect? Why spaghetti? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 13:35, 25 April 2011 (UTC)


 * From http://www.rieti.go.jp/en/columns/a01_0193.html it says:

"He called this situation a spaghetti bowl phenomenon. By this, he was referring to the manner in which half-finished products and parts go around various FTA networks using tariff differentiation in an effort to export finished products to the consumer countries at the lowest price; he visualized this as crisscrossing lines and likened these strings of lines to strands of spaghetti tangled in a bowl. (In the first article in which Bhagwati used this term, the crisscrossing of FTAs was also likened to spaghetti. But such usage has disappeared in his subsequent papers.)" – Kaihsu (talk) 15:58, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Are you saying that spaghetti is a half finished product? Apart from the ridiculous explanation of half-finished products going in and finished products coming out, using spaghetti as a metaphor, regardless of tariff differentiation or lowest price, spaghetti which is cooked 'properly' and therefore 'al dente' never gets tangled in a bowl! Therefore the 'tangling' effect of Free Trade cannot be compared to the real effects of some good (properly cooked) spaghetti! Now if you would rather talk about cooking lessons than I suggest you leave political science of the fucking picture!