- Everywhere else, this would look like discrimination, with thanks to Hal Brands. More here from Megan McArdle, and here from Mike Munger.
- Guess which US state ranks below Syria in terms of the percentage of women in the legislature? (Hint: “I was hiking the Appalachian trail.”)
- The top 20 must-read papers in the American Economic Review.
- Public (restrooms) policy.
- Econ while exercising or commuting.
Published February 14, 2011
On Mark Bittman’s Future Food Manifesto (Updated)
A few weeks ago, the New York Times‘ Mark Bittman wrote a column entitled “A Food Manifesto for the Future,” in which he offered his thoughts as to how to “make the growing, preparation and consumption of food healthier, saner, more productive, less damaging and more enduring.” Bittman’s suggestions are very much in line with the expectations and beliefs of the bien-pensant, as befits someone writing for the newspaper of record, but some of his suggestions were highly impractical.
I wanted to discuss his column earlier on but other more pressing events happened in terms of food policy which I chose to discuss first, and this has been a busy week, so my apologies for the lateness of these comments.
Among Bittman’s thoughts were: