Why is Africa Poor?
Chris Blattman’s syllabus for his course at Yale. The comments are useful too.
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Archives » December, 2008
Thomas’s Mexican Muffins?
OK, for those of you who don’t live in North America, “English” muffins, especially Thomas’s, are a basic breakfast toast. And now comes Bimbo from Mexico. Not only has it bought Thomas’s English muffins but their parent company and catapulted to the biggest bakery in the world. Food conglomerate George Weston Ltd. will sell the [...]
Secretary of Food
I really want to write about woks. But how can I contemplate the appearance of woks in the 3rd or 4th century AD in China when one of the burning issues of American policy is upon us. Should the Secretary of Agriculture be re-named the Secretary of Food? Really, I have to pinch myself. Nicholas [...]
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