Economic Sense

Recently I was invited on AgriTalk to discuss the science and economics of labeling genetically modified foods and take questions from calle...

A nice combination of empirical evidence and social network analysis explains a leading misconception and conspiracy theories about Bt cott...

An example of a cooperative market based solution to internalizing negative externalities associated with herbicide resistance. (Note: Round...

Over at my econometrics blog, I'm discussing the ramifications of social media and big data on the ag industry. Social media has all...

Proposition 37 is a crystal clear example of rent seeking in the food industry. Some natural and organic and other food special interests...

http://mobile.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-05/monsanto-seed-patent-case-gets-u-dot-s-dot-supreme-court-review The merits of the US IP...

Farm Food Freedom KY is a KY based interest group that has gotten some attention from a few of our lawmakers in Frankfort. But, are they ...

From the introduction on p.10:  "The Genetically Engineered Foods Mandatory Labeling Initiative (A....

"Carson exploited her reputation as a well-known nature writer to advocate and legitimatize "positions linked to a darker traditio...

"And painful experience tells us that economic agents may not behave as the models suppose they will." Painful experience tells...

"Scholars who have designed taxonomies to point out the difference between open access arrangements and common property have sometimes ...

And, how to ruin a good thing: See also these links related to rent seeking and biotechnology.  References : Matt Bogard. "Sus...

Pending Thursday's supreme court decision on the Affordable 'Care' Act , auto industry, labor, environmental, and banking relate...

Is there justification for government intervention requiring labeling of GMO foods? In a post from a few years back, I looked at the r...

Recently CBS news reported that on a Texas ranch that GMO grass suddenly started producing cyanide and killing cattle. It turned out that th...

From The Academics Review Criticism of 'Genetic Roulette'  “It is certainly true that crop breeding changes DNA; in fact, that ...

HT: David Tribe Excerpted from: Alain de Weck * * Emeritus Professor of Immunology, Institute of Immunology (University of Bern, ...

In ‘ Maternal and fetal exposure to pesticides associated to genetically modified Foods in Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada’ the author...

Lots of times students complain that either their statistics classes used silly examples that were too simple to ever be realistic, or that ...

"There is no significant risk to monarch butterflies from environmental exposure to Bt corn, according to research conducted by a ...