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It is common to hear statements about needing to increase food production by 70%, or even to double it, by 2050. In the past I’ve tried to ...

How should crop insurance premiums adjust to a changing climate in order to remain actuarial fair? Short answer:  Very slowly. That see...

Sol, Ted Miguel , and I are excited to have a paper we've been working on for a while finally come out. The title is "Quantifying...

Amy Harmon has a great  in-depth story  in the New York Times about the science and controversy surrounding GMO crops.  The article is nomin...

After seeing how much Goldman profited from selling MBS that they knew were junk, it's hard to feel sorry for Goldman receiving  so much...

A little follow up from my post the other day :  It's probably going too far to say investment to curb climate change, if made during ...

The Obama administration is side stepping congress and finally doing something about climate change.  The " action plan " has a ni...

There have been lots of interesting papers in the literature lately. More than I can keep up with for reading, much less to blog about. For...

The Economist tell us that times are tough for sex workers in the UK (HT: Sol ).  A sluggish economy and has dried up demand for paid sex...

From my inbox: An ad hoc coalition of unlikely insurgents -- scientists, journal editors and publishers, scholarly societies, and researc...