Why are Americans Eating Spicier Food?
This question prompted much discussion on Marginal Revolution, the blog run by economists Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok. No one much liked the hypothesis of the study under discussion: that…
Read moreBetting on foreign buyers: Liberalizing the Swiss cheese trade
The makers of Swiss cheese, hitherto protected by export subsidies and import barriers, are now having to compete on the market. It took ten years of negotiation and persuasion. The…
Read moreTeriyaki Shops in Seattle
Where did these storefront restaurants with the $7 meals of some kind of teriyaki or sesame chicken, yakisoba or California rolls come from? What the relation with the Hawaii plate…
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