- "Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor."
Theodore Schultz
Nobel Lecture, 1979
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Monthly Archives: July 2015
Appropriating on Facebook: how to share during fieldwork
Lua Wilkinson is a PhD candidate in Nutrition at Cornell University. Confession: I have posted pictures on Facebook during fieldwork for the explicit purpose of showing off how worldly and humanitarian I was. Yes. Like this girl. Yes, I am white … Continue reading →
Year of Soils 2015: Climate change and ecosystem services
Julia Berazneva and Leah Bevis are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. In our previous posts we discussed how the quality and health of soils determine agricultural production and sustainability and, as a consequence, influence human health. Soils also play a critical … Continue reading →
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Measuring hope: Lessons from rural Myanmar
Jeffrey Bloem is a Master’s student in Michigan State University’s Department of Agriculture, Food, and Resource Economics. Follow him on Twitter @JeffBloem and on his blog. As behavioral economics has become the mainstream of economic science, there has been a … Continue reading →
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What encourages the purchase of a fuel-efficient cookstove?
Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. In a previous post, I discussed how daily cooking produces smoke that is killing millions of people every year in developing countries. One … Continue reading →