Agricultural and Applied Economics—Without Apology
Unless you have been off the grid all of last week, you are probably aware that AOL has purchased the Huffington Post for $315 million in cash and stock.
Nate Silver, of fivethirtyeight.com fame, provides his usual excellent analysis in a post on his New York Times blog discussing both the deal and the economics of blogging.
The Guardian had a really good article yesterday about the relationship between food prices and political instability, essentially concluding that rising food prices caused by crop shortages could lead to political instability.
Over the past few weeks, I have written extensively about the twin issues of rising food prices and food price volatility.
It all began with this post, in which I explained the difference between rising food prices and food price volatility and which came as a result of people frequently misusing the concept of food price volatility in the media, both mainstream and social.