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• Climategate

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  Recently, a lot of headlines have been made about hacked emails that involved questionable exchanges between climate scientists. Reading between the lines, the emails imply that there was a conscious effort among climate scientists to massage data (possibly omitting data that would weaken their conclusions) as well as blackball authors [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:54pm EST by agEconomist

• Thanksgiving or Ingratitutde

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  The First Thanksgiving offered a great lesson in how free markets and private property can lead to agricultural abundance. In many ways we have done well in learning this. Family farmers account for 98% of all farms and produce 96% of all the food in this country. Their own pursuit [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:39am EST by agEconomist

• The First Thanksgiving: A Lesson in Free Market Agriculture

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  The first Thanksgiving story provides an interesting lesson in agricultural economics. Foremost, the celebration was about thanking God for the abundance. However, an important aspect is what resulted from a move away from a socialist or common property model of organizing and allocating resources (imposed on them by the Colony’s [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:37pm EST by agEconomist

• Why Agricultural Economics?

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  "The combination of quantitative training and applied work makes agricultural economics graduates an extremely well-prepared source of employees for private industry. That's why American Express has hired over 80 agricultural economists since 1990." - David Edwards, Vice President-International Risk Management, American Express
  
  Agricultural Economics is very much an' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:49pm EST by agEconomist

• Greed, Envy, and Compensation

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  To me, we have seen a lot of hypocrisy lately in the public discourse regarding the issue of compensation. The underlying premise for much of the call for capping executive compensation has been that executives are overcompensated. That compensation structures have provided too much incentive for excessive risk taking. When [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 5:02pm EST by agEconomist

• Earth Liberation Front: Resistance Part II

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  Previously I was discussing Eigene Weekly's Next Big Thing blog interview of Craig Rosebraugh regarding Earth Liberation Front's magazine 'Resistance.' I pointed out a couple of myths being perpetuated about the role of profits and biotechnology as they relate to environmental sustainability. In the same interview, Mr. Rosebraugh makes [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:11pm EST by agEconomist

• Earth Liberation Front: Resistance ( or Obstinance)

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  The following is an excerpt from a recent interview (here on Eigene Weekly's Next Big Thing blog) of Craig Rosebraugh regarding Earth Liberation Front's magazine 'Resistance.'
  
  "This movement realizes that when governments and politicians refuse to act to protect the planet, it is up to all of" [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:08pm EST by agEconomist

• Richmond Times Dispatch- Back and Forth

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  My previous post- 'House Passes Anti-Ag Health Care Bill' I expanded on some comments that I had left there in response to an editorial entitled Snack Attack ( which I was in favor of).
  
  Someone responded to my comments as follows:
  
  "But the interpretation of law" [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:54pm EST by agEconomist

• House Passes Healthcare Bill

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  A recent editorial in the Richmond Times Dispatch brings up the provision in the now passed house health care bill that regulates snack machines.
  
  The snack machine provision certainly does characterize not only this bill, but the general condescending attitude that our leaders have towards science and [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:15am EST by agEconomist

• Resistance : The Politics of Green

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  The politics of green: (link)
  
  "This movement realizes that when governments and politicians refuse to act to protect the planet, it is up to all of us to step in and protect our home. And the only logic way that this protection may occur is to understand" [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:17pm EST by agEconomist

• Buy 100% Biotech Cotton to Reduce Pesticides!

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  The Center For Consumer Freedom picked up on my AgWeb post.
  
  See Here
  
  Think organic cotton saves on pesticide use? Take a look at biotech cotton [is.gd] #gmo #biotech9:32 AM Oct 30th from web [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 6:47pm EST by agEconomist

• When we take Cass Sunstein's Nudging a little too far

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  Despite the fact that research from George Mason University's Mercatus Center indicates that soda taxes would have to be in excess of 1200% to be effective, and despite little to no evidence linking soft drinks consumption to obesity, and despite the fact that sugar contains 50% fructose compared to 42%' [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 6:28pm EST by agEconomist