The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) now has a blog. This morning, the blog launched a “Member Profiles” series featuring a profile of yours truly:
Published March 28, 2011
Marc F. Bellemare Posts
Published March 27, 2011
How One Fruit Vendor Changed the World
Today’s Washington Post has a must-read article about how Mohammed Bouazizi ignited — literally — the wave of political unrest in the Arab World:
Published March 27, 2011
A New Method for Measuring Hunger
Robert Jensen and Nolan Miller, who are famous for publishing what is perhaps the first paper credibly establishing the existence of Giffen behavior a few years ago have devised a new means for measuring hunger in developing countries.
From The Economist‘s Economics Focus column last week: