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Category: Development

Becker and Posner on Food Prices in Developing Countries, and Social Science Epistemology

This weekend, Gary Becker and Richard Posner — two of the smartest and most prolific academics in the nation — wrote about food prices in developing countries on their blog. As always, their analysis is excellent and their writing is top-notch, so what I discuss in this post is really a quibble.