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Published May 6, 2011

Did Goldman Sachs Cause the Food Crisis?

No, says my colleague Michael Roberts at North Carolina State University.

Last week, Tom over at A View from the Cave asked me over Twitter what I thought of an article in Foreign Policy that claimed that Goldman Sachs had caused the food crisis. I did not have a chance to respond immediately because I had a coauthor in town, so I saved the article for later. Michael’s post this morning reminded me that I had forgotten to address Tom’s question.

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Published May 2, 2011

High Food Prices: Despite Claims to the Contrary, US Farmers Are Still Doing Well

One of my coauthors was in town all of last week, so the little time we didn’t spend working on our paper was spent tending to the students in the two classes I was teaching this semester. This explains why I haven’t blogged in almost a week.

Still, I have managed to bookmark everything that has happened to catch my eye last week, and so this week’s blogging will be a mixture of new and (one-week-) old items.

The first of these items was a post by Tufts University’s Parke Wilde discussing a report by Tim Wise, from the Global Development and Environment (GDAE) Institute.

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