Rachel Laudan

Here’s the Financial Times on grain prices world wide and the likelihood that Argentine farmers will throttle back on soy production. Thanks to Kelly O´Leary for the reference.
And here’s an article from the Wall Street Journal. What I thought was interesting and little remarked on is how South American countries are the major winners [...]

What happened
A week or so ago I posted on the protests in Buenos Aires. Farmers, enraged by a new export tax on grains that meant that they would be paying 40% on their exports blocked the roads to the ports and and Buenos Aires.
For several nights the urban middle class in a new alliance [...]

Sometimes when you’re researching a topic, you run across a side issue that is almost irresistible. Here’s one of those. There I was trolling through the Encyclopedia Iranica for references to honey and milk way way back in history. The Encyclopedia Iranica, by the way, is a wonderful resource for scholarly articles [...]