About Table Scraps

Table Scraps is a blog maintained by Bailey Norwood, one of the editors of Food & Resource Dialogues. It's purpose is to explore what is happening in the world of agriculture, food and resources; to discover topics that would make interesting FRD articles; to help readers understand different perspectives on controversial topics—including why intelligent people form different opinions; and to experiment with different ways of applying economics to contemporary topics.

The entries in Table Scraps are not peer-reviewed items of research, nor do they represent the views of anyone in particular (not even the blog's author!).

Monday, June 25, 2012

No ag economists, once again (local foods)

A review of The Locavore's Dilemma* suggests the book is the most intelligent treatment of the local foods issue yet. It saddens me, though, that there is almost never any ag economist doing the work the public is interested in. Never has food been so popular, yet we are still working on econometric issues, experimental tweaks, and all kind of clever little articles that the public could care less about.
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