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  1. via Mark Thoma, Jeffrey Sachs worries about transgressing our planet's boundaries: I'd really like to read the .. http://bit.ly/1wbqSL
  2. Questions from China about the Food Summit: A reporter (Xu Jingjing) from China's Life Week magazine writes wit.. http://bit.ly/1E8Jm8
  3. How are we going to feed the world?: I'm trying out a new trick: embedding power point slides into a blog post... http://bit.ly/4b1fUN
  4. Is dynamic inconsistency really the problem with inflation targeting?: Okay, I should really heed Brad Delong's.. http://bit.ly/2ql6MH
  5. A thoughtful critique of Gladwell (and by implication, other populist extremes): Here Steven Pinker critiques M.. http://bit.ly/1Kyyq8
  6. Krugman: Inflation targeting is the first best solution: So now Krugman says inflation targeting is the first-b.. http://bit.ly/3fSdks
  7. Can biotechnology help fight world hunger?: I just found the transcript to forum from over nine years ago. .. http://bit.ly/JZZEO
  8. Evolution of heat tolerance in corn: implications for climate change: I've just finished my lastest paper with .. http://bit.ly/1VkgUN
  9. Denialism: This new book by Michael Specter is one I think I need to read:http://www.amazon.com/Denialism-Irrat.. http://bit.ly/3aDQQm
  10. How raising prices can reduce the cost of conservation: Many don't realize that the U.S. Department of Agricult.. http://bit.ly/4xo2UG
  11. An open letter from a real scientist to Steven Levitt: This comes from Real Climate, or more specifically, from.. http://bit.ly/3xUEgh
  12. Counting jobs: Okay, I'm not a macroeconomist, so someone please tell me if I way off base here.  I'm tryi.. http://bit.ly/4k4o5j
  13. Menzie Chin on futures as predictors of commodity prices: Here is Menzie Chin (my thoughts below):As commodity .. http://bit.ly/2ERqEb
  14. On the commodity share of retail food prices: A professor of biological sciences emails:I would like to follow .. http://bit.ly/3LypOH
  15. Alternatives to Biotech Food: Here are a few follow up ideas from the NYT Room for Debate.  This is such a.. http://bit.ly/idAen
  16. Climate change, food supply and the role of genetically modified crops: I think higher food prices--the kind th.. http://bit.ly/C5tag
  17. Nick Kristoff: "...nearly 45,000 uninsured people die annually as a consequence of not having insurance..." http://tinyurl.com/ycvalw5
  18. I'm live at the New York Times, on climate change, food supply and the role of genetically modified crops: http://tinyurl.com/ykts9sh
  19. Michael Pollan says health care reform will pit insurance companies against agribusiness (in a good way). http://tinyurl.com/r95626
  20. Paul Krugman on macroeconomics: http://twitterurl.net//Q9788 and response by John Cochrane: http://twitterurl.net//L9789