Category: Economics

November 30, 2012

Test Your Knowledge of Food Finances!

We conclude our week-long feature on The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets, by Kara Newman, with a quiz that tests your knowledge of the finances food (Click here for the answers): 1. Where is the...

November 29, 2012

Kara Newman Interviewed by Zester Daily

Earlier this Fall, Kara Newman talked with Zester Daily about her new book The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. In the interview Newman explains commodities markets and futures trading and how it affects the price...

November 28, 2012

Trading Places and the Secret Financial Life of Food

It is hard not to consider the topic food commodities without thinking of Trading Places (see clip below), which Kara Newman references in her new book The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. In The Secret...

November 27, 2012

Kara Newman's 3 Predictions for the Future of Food-Based Futures

The following post is by Kara Newman, author of The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets My new book, The Secret Financial Life of Food, focuses on the history of agricultural commodities, including the personalities and...

October 17, 2012

VIDEO: Siddharth Kara on Bonded Labor

This week CNN’s Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery has been featuring posts and videos by Siddharth Kara, author of Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia. On Monday, he looked at bonded labor in Nepal and the...

October 12, 2012

Siddharth Kara on How to End Bonded Labor

In addition to exploring the system of bonded labor and the lives of those who suffer under it, Siddharth Kara offers ways in which it can be ended. (For a description of the system of bonded, read an excerpt from...

October 11, 2012

Siddharth Kara on the Facts Behind Bonded Labor in South Asia

Critics have praised Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery and Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia, for his integration of investigative narrative journalism and clear-sighted economic analysis. In this post,...

October 10, 2012

Siddharth Kara on the Sex Trade in Nepal

For his most recent book, Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia, Siddharth Kara is based on his extensive travels to the region. In a running series on CNN’s Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery, Kara discussed what...

October 9, 2012

Book Giveaway: "Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia," by Siddharth Kara

“Siddharth Kara’s exploration of bonded labor in South Asia is perhaps the most ambitious and reasoned treatment of this form of slavery in the modern era…. This is a must read for all that want to better understand the trajectory...

June 27, 2012

Geoffrey Heal: Planetary Economics

Geoffrey Heal, in his keynote address to the Rio+20 conference, discusses sustainability and how economics can help us get there.

June 22, 2012

Paul Courant Offers a Economist's View of the Google Book Settlement

We conclude our week-long focus on The Economists’ Voice 2.0: The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More, edited by Joseph Stiglitz and Aaron Edlin with an essay Paul N. Courant, an economist and dean of libraries at the University...

June 21, 2012

A View on the Failures of New Classical Economics from The Economists' Voice 2.0

After the financial crisis of 2008, economists debated the applicability of New Classical Economics. Did this macroeconomic theory with its faith in markets fail to predict or understand looming economic problems? Paul Krugman criticized New Classical Economics while University of...