Building a Green Economy
By Paul Krugman
The following article was originally published in the New York Times Magazine on April 7, 2010.
If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as usual, they [...]
Agribusiness Executives Tune-Up at Harvard
by Hal Hamilton
— January 27, 2003 —
I felt a bit like a fish out of water as I walked into the Harvard Business School Agribusiness Executive Seminar. My whole professional life has been spent working on behalf of farming communities. At Harvard I was in the midst of a fraternity of people who run the food system.
There were 160 participants, [...]
Imagine Agriculture as a Competitive Game: Who Wins?
by Hal Hamilton
— December 3, 2002 —
Imagine agriculture as a vast competitive game structured by economic rules. All the players are competing to win with one formula of success: the highest returns and the lowest costs.
The power of this game is that it’s the only game. To farm, buy, process and market food and fiber you play by the efficiency [...]
Dead Zone Economics
by Elizabeth Sawin
— October 1, 2002 —
The headline in the August 16 issue of Science magazine is ominous — “Dead Zone Grows.” To the right of the headline is a map of the Gulf of Mexico. And drawn on the map, hugging the shoreline, is an irregular green stripe. This is the Dead Zone, an area of the Gulf where [...]
