Category: Micro

Published April 21, 2011

The G-20 and Global Food Security

Last Friday, the Center for Global Development (CGDev) was hosting an event titled “Enabling Africa’s Next Growth Decade: The G-20’s Role in Supporting Infrastructure Development and Global Food Security.” From the CGDev blog:

Published April 19, 2011

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.

Published April 4, 2011

A Misguided Crusade Against Unpaid Internships

Since the beginning of the year, there has been an increasing number of references to the “unfairness” of unpaid internships. This op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times by Ross Perlin, a researcher at the Himalayan Languages Project, summarizes that view: