Monday, October 24, 2022

The Ethics of Dietary Nudges and Behavior Change Focused on Climate and Sustainability

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As discussed in McFadden, et al., 2022, when focusing on policies and behaviors related to climate change and sustainability we should consi...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

The Role of Identify Protective Cognition in the Formation of Consumer Beliefs and Preferences

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Background People pick and choose their science, and often they do it in ways that seem rationally inconsistent. One lens through which we c...
Friday, June 17, 2022

The Limits of Nudges and the Role of Experiments in Applied Behavioral Economics

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In a recent article in Nature, Evidence from a statewide vaccination RCT , authors found that eight different nudges previously shown to be ...
Monday, June 13, 2022

Agricultural Economics in the Healthcare Space

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During the pandemic, it wasn't too uncommon to hear the criticism that economists should stay in their lane when it comes to issues rela...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Innovation, Disruption, and Low(er) Carbon Beef

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Is There Really Such a Thing as Low-Carbon Beef? That is the title of a recent article in Wired . The article was referring to a new USDA pr...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Facts, Figures, or Fiction: Unwarranted Criticisms of the Biden Administration's Failure to Target Methane Emissions from Livestock

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Background Methane has gotten a lot of attention recently in relation to   fighting climate change : "The oil, gas and coal industries ...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

The Supply Chain Knowledge Problem

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Our current supply chain struggles can largely be understood through the lens of the fundamental problem of economics, the knowledge problem...