Gone Missing: 28,000 Tons of Maize in Mexico

Yesterday an extraordinary half page advertisement appeared in Mexico City newspapers.  This year 28 thousand tons of maize have been stolen from trucks or railroad cars.  That’s enough maize to…

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What We Hath Wrought: Lynne Cohen’s Vision (Not Food)

We first met Lynne some thirty years ago, long before she became so famous, when she came to visit her philosopher partner in our little university town. She swept in,…

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Will there be a return to servants?

Megan McArdle at the Atlantic, following Arnold King, asks this. Why hasn’t rising inequality resulted in in the much-predicted oligarchy?  Or to put it as he does: with so many…

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