Economic Sense

From: http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/21/breaking-%E2%80%9Coccupy-cargill%E2%80%9D-activists-stage-citizen%E2%80%99s-arrest-on-cargill-i...

At the following link, you will find an article and youtube video covering a farmer's march as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement....

Comparing the Structure, Size, and Performance of Local and Mainstream Food Supply Chains USDA Economic Research Report Number 99 Jun...

One central theme behind Roosevelt's stimulus policies, like today, was that business was sitting on their hands and the government h...

Previously I had said “Time will tell if those occupying Wall Street calling for ending the Fed and crony capitalism are the true voice of ...

The #occupywallstreet movement seems to be a pretty diverse group. From ‘trolling’ the occupywallstreet forums , there seems to be a...

From basic principles of economics, we know that measures of inflation based on the CPI are biased because of substitution effects, the intr...

Are you confusing 'big ag', 'factory farming' or 'industrial agriculture' with the complex network of modern family ...

"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to b...

Below are excerpts from two economists (David Henderson and Sam Clovis) on faculty at the Naval Post Graduate School. Note, Henderson will b...

‎"I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much indetermined and unpredictable, to a pretence of exact knowledge...

Romer, Christina and David Romer, (2010). "The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks,...

" Yet today we have only a handful of genetically modified crops, primarily soybeans, corn, canola and cotton. All are commodity crops ...

http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2011/08/14/agbiotech-and-combating-climate-change/ Some teasers: "GMOs in the US and in other countries, red...

Based on these numbers, the U.S. has the most progressive tax system in the world by far. The top 10% of earners earn about 33.5% of all inc...

From the report:  http://www.ft.com/cms/af2c4fac-bfc2-11e0-90d5-00144feabdc0.pdf    “the downgrade reflects our view that the effectivenes...

  The Problem with Fair Trade Coffee By Colleen Haight.   Stanford Social Innovation Review Summer 2011 link My field and analytical ...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800911002400 A case of the internalization of negative externalities via technological...

HT to Cafe Hayek, I've been looking for thus data a while.  http://persquaremile.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/the-worlds-population-conce...

HT to Cafe Hayek, I've been looking for this data some time now, and I finally found it. The ramifications in terms of recycling, landfi...