Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Mystery and discovery in the economics of fishing on the high seas

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Fishing on the high seas may frequently be economically unsustainable, according to an analysis last year by Enric Sala and colleagues in Sc...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Federal government's beef checkoff program buys advertising to discourage grocers from stocking plant-based alternatives

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The federal government's beef checkoff program this week is running advertisements in GroceryDive , a trade news site, targeting grocery...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Are SSB taxes good or bad for the poor?

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In an economic sense, the optimal soda tax is surprisingly high, even if one values economic redistribution and opposes "regressivity...
Friday, August 02, 2019

Dietary guidelines, processed meat, and risk of cancer

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In a public comment submitted today, my colleagues Fang Fang Zhang, Jennifer Pomeranz, and I encourage the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines Adv...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

U.S. China agricultural trade and the bailout boondoggle

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Late last fall, Choices Magazine from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) had a special issue on U.S. - China trade,...
Monday, May 06, 2019

USDA announces 3 finalists for ERS and NIFA location

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on May 3 announced three finalists for the potential new location of the Economic Research Servic...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Outbreak by Timothy Lytton

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The new book Outbreak  by legal scholar Timothy Lytton ( University of Chicago Press ; Amazon ) is both well-written and insightful about ho...