Economic Sense

In the last entry on voting paradoxes, I mentioned that things are different if preferences are single peaked. Let’s look at another scena...

Is majority rule the best way to represent voters preferences for a given set of policies? Let’s look at a particular voting scenario to i...

What is the difference between 'risk' and 'uncertainty'? "Uncertainty refers to outcomes that we cannot foresee, or w...

Previously I discussed how the World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, and the National Academy of Sciences have all i...

The World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, and the National Academy of Sciences have all issued statements regarding ...

Over at RealClearAgriculture I have been blogging about food subsidies and soda taxes. Research from the American Journal of Clinical Nutr...

According to the USDA, "an estimated 12.7 percent of American households were food insecure at least some time during the year in 2015...

Can we feed the world sustainably using organic crop production methods? Several studies have indicated that there is a yield penalty for ...

In a very recent paper in Nature Methods , researchers used CRISPR technology to repair a gene mutation related to blindness in mice. But w...

TalkingBiotech 079: Technology and Society  (link) Very nice.  One thing that moved me toward studying both genetics and economics was the...

I found an interesting article in Quanta Magazing discussing a 2012 paper in PNAS discussing game theory in the context of evolutionary proc...

See also: Game Theory- Selected Works In graduate school  (2005) some of the applied work I did focused on the idea of combining populatio...

In graduate school I looked at trait resistance management through  the lens of game theory. Below are some links to some related posts, ref...

A really interesting article in JEP: A slice: "In fact, the costs of comprehensively genotyping human subjects have fallen to the ...

There is a segment of the organic movement that wants to get their ducks in a row so that they can oppose gene editing technologies without ...

Jayson Lusk recently pointed out that making large scale organic work (i.e. read if we want more access to organic food that means 'l...

Previously the ag industry and companies like Monsanto seemed to have a focus on a one-size fits all solution to crop protection and seeds....

From the literature: “We found that the improvement of a plant variety through the acquisition of a new desired trait, using either mutage...

Last week there was an interesting interview on the closing market report with Robb Fraley, Chief Technology Officer at Monsanto. The discus...

Has biotechnology lived up to its promises? What were the ‘promises’ of biotechnology? Does genetic engineering present food safety risks ...