The 2020 Tufts/UConn Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) Conference, held virtually on October 14, will feature ...

Government policy influences all parts of the food marketing chain, including farms, food manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, and diverse...

The book Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction , whose second edition has just been released in the Earthscan Food and Agricultu...

In the American Journal of Public Health this month, Jennifer Falbe and colleagues found that the penny-per-ounce Berkeley soda tax succeed...

Noted agricultural economist Jayson Lusk's new book is Unnaturally Delicious  (St. Martin's Press, 2016), a love letter to food and...

Angus Deaton earlier this month won the Nobel Prize in Economics (or, more formally, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Me...

In a commentary titled, "A Farmer's Double Life," in the new edition of Tufts Nutrition , my Friedman School colleagues Jennif...

In my in-box are two new books on agricultural policy controversies, both written by agricultural economists. Both books seek, with partial ...

The U.S. food supply is far out of balance with dietary recommendations. A new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dieteti...

Circa 2005, U.S. web search interest in the terms "food policy" and "agricultural economics" was about equal. Nowadays, ...

Many important debates in U.S. Food Policy turn on competing views about the global food prospect, especially the food situation in developi...

Choices Magazine -- the outreach magazine of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) -- this spring and early summer publ...

In its 2014 awards program, the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) has given honorable mention to my book, Food Policy i...

In a Marketplace report last night, Dan Bobkoff describes the excitement of new crops for global farmers without overstating the power of an...

With support from the Obama administration, Congress is contemplating an increase in the minimum wage, in small annual steps to $10.10 per h...

A new report from USDA's Economic Research Service finds: In the United States, 31 percent—or 133 billion pounds—of the 430 billion p...

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently (in December 2013) announced the once-every-five-years release of benchmark national inp...

In an interview with Jayson Lusk, author of the Food Police , the Casual Kitchen blog today asks: 'Why is it that many food policy advo...

In a recent blog post , my Friedman School colleague Will Masters considers the differences in the economic incentives that manufacturers, r...

A second excerpt from the first chapter of Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction (Routledge/Earthscan) , which was published i...