Betting 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…

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Illegal Immigrant Farm Workers: The Finances

Following up the post about American farmers moving to Mexico to get cheap reliable labor, I’d like to add some comments on the economics of leaving Guanajuato to work illegally…

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Tracking recent changes in taste: Algeria

One of the hardest things to figure out about food, if you live in the US, is how tastes are changing in other parts of the world. Cookbooks and food…

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