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Category: Agriculture
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Menzie Chen at Econbrowser, who spends a lot of time looking at the Kansas economic experiment in state tax cuts, disagrees with Ironman about the effects of drought on the Kansas economy: Ironman at Political Calculations asserts it does. Unfortunately, he makes a mistake in calculating Kansas GDP ex.-agriculture by simply subtracting chained agriculture from…
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I recommend you follow the link below but here is an excerpt with only the analysis cut out: How much can climate change impact the economy? No matter who you are or what your thoughts are about the topic of climate change, whether very well reasoned or not, this is a real question that real…
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An anonymous comment from an anonymous student about an anonymous professor* in an anonymous class dealing with food economics at an anonymous institution of higher education: I found it annoying how this class approached the topic of food strictly from an economics standpoint. The professor talked a lot about the benefits of large biotech corporations…
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. via politicalcalculations.blogspot.com
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The Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics (my department) in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (my college) at The Ohio State University (my university) is hiring for four new faculty positions–and I am not ashamed of taking advantage of this blog to promote the positions. If you have (or are close…
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This summer’s Lake Erie algae bloom is almost certain to be the worst on record, warn the scientists who study the lake. via www.dispatch.com Here is what I said to a group of local environmental professionals about Lake Erie Harmful Algal Blooms last year: We’ve heard a lot today about solutions for high phosphorous loads…
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Mike Roberts: Matthew Kahn, author of the cheeky book Climatopolis: How Our Cities will Thrive in the Hotter Future, likes to compliment our research (Schlenker and Roberts, 2009) on potential climate impacts to agriculture by saying it will cause valuable innovation that will prevent its dismal predictions from ever occurring. Matt has a point, one that…
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This is good news but if we're not living through the great tribulation then I don't know what to say: You've heard the news about honeybees. "Beepocalypse," they've called it. Beemageddon. America's honeybees are dying, putting honey production and $15 billion worth of pollinated food crops in jeopardy. … The trouble all began in 2006…
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Nitrate levels at a Columbus water treatment facility increased overnight, according to city officials, who said the no-drink advisory for pregnant women and infants younger than 6 months has been continued. via www.dispatch.com The defensive expenditure model predicts that in the presence of an adverse event the demand for substitute goods will increase. In this…
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“The demand we’re placing on the aquifer and the deep bedrock drilling, which is going on at an alarmingly fast pace, is really scary,” said Tricia Blattler, executive director of the Tulare County Farm Bureau. “Folks are really concerned we’re not going to be able find water in the groundwater system much longer. We are…
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