Koen Deconinck

With the UN Food Systems Summit around the corner, you will hear much about agricultural subsidies. This can be a complex topic, so here's an explainer! #foodsystems

A FAIRR panel at #COP27 today discussed work on a 1.5C roadmap for global agriculture similar to the @IEA ‘Net Zero by 2050’ roadmap for energy. @ZitouniOuldDada, Deputy Director at FAO, confirmed work is underway at the FAO with the aim of publishing a roadmap by COP28.

@GregoryRHancock @wesbonifay This is amazing.

Federal & state agricultural R&D is key to long-term advances in productivity, reductions in food prices, and climate mitigation, as our new @TheBTI report with modeling from Uris Baldos @PurdueAgEcon details. thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-ag…

@boozecolumnist @RobinSGoldstein @wineecon

Head of a big drinks PR firm, w brand & region clients, just told me his firm pays $25k/year to an influential wine magazine. I asked why; he said “to ensure our clients’ wines are reviewed” & “poorly reviewed wines aren’t listed”-in case anyone wonders how wine criticism goes

Love @ApolloSurveys' way of learning: a specialist identifies who & what to ask, then readers get to see the full range of scientific opinion. Some Qs yield consensus with outliers, others a uniform distribution over a range, & some views are polarized (bimodal). That's science!

@Matthuber78 @RUEcon

Has anyone written an account of how under neoliberalism everyone on the left stopped talking about class and started framing everything in terms of “justice”? Whether or not neoliberalism is “over” this remains a real problem…

@Unpop_Science @waiterich

Another example of the use of cultural appropriation to promote animal agriculture: This article calls cattle ranching in N. American forests an Indigenous practice, but cattle were brought by colonists. It doesn’t mention buffalo or name a single tribe. scientificamerican.com/article/puttin…

Air pollution from cars is terrifying. Just one Volkswagen diesel that cheated on emissions tests per 1,000 cars upped infant mortality by 1.7%! It shows "moderate amounts of car pollution impair population health at all pollution levels and across the socioeconomic spectrum."

@nomadj1s @RUEcon

One thing I’ll say about economists’ views on debt forgiveness Our field tends to judge policies w/ a limited framework that tries to maximize net benefits today & in the future, & MAYBE cares if you are presently in more need. But debt also captures PAST injury … 🪡/🧵

An issue when comparing the average carbon footprint of food is that it hides the variation *within* a given food. But the key message doesn't change: the 'best' (lowest impact) meats still tend to emit more than the 'worst' plant-based foods. ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-s…

@sfiscience @JacksonmMatt @games_to_change @GlennMagerman

Fighting misinformation without a censorship or a fact-checking authority: Research led by SFI External Prof @JacksonmMatt shows that limiting the reach of messages can help restore signal to social networks. Co-author @games_to_change explains: today.duke.edu/2022/08/econom…

A recent paper in @NatureFoodJnl claimed that 'global food miles' were 20% of food emissions. And a move to local food was effective to address climate change. But this is incorrect. My article on the issues with this study & why this is not the case: researchgate.net/publication/36…

@profmusgrave Actually, @CharlesCMann 's books 1491 and 1493 are both terrific!

Historians need to rebrand as the Extended Universe. "You've heard about 1776, but what do you know about *1775*?"

@rodrikdani @Leigh_Phillips

There is considerable evidence that shows economic shocks have played a significant role in the *rise* of populism, including notably right-wing populism. I cite and discuss tons of studies here drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/publications/w…

@JennyElaineG @EHAC_EDGI @ericnost @lfalvarezleon @DrKarenBakker @JJABlair @RebeccaLave @hilaryfaxon @Landstuff @ZeniaKish @l_haddad @foodpolicy_JHU - might be of interest to you?

It’s here! The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics w @ericnost out in print. Order yours for Oct 1: nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/97814… Grateful to have included contributions by @lfalvarezleon @DrKarenBakker @JJABlair @RebeccaLave @hilaryfaxon @Landstuff @ZeniaKish

@evidensianews @ForrestFleisch1

@ErikSolheim @VanDammeEDU

Education is about progress, not exam results. Singapore 🇸🇬 is on top of world education!

@RegScUrbEc @mattyglesias this will interest you

New in #RSUE: "Testing the monocentric standard urban model in a global sample of cities" ift.tt/ksZu6nw #UrbanEcon #EconTwitter

@LiorSheffer @The_JOP @UAntwerpen @ClaudiaChwalisz

Now in @The_JOP: How well do politicians understand public opinion? In a massive project led by Stefaan Walgrave (@UAntwerpen), we asked 866 politicians in four countries to estimate public opinion on salient issues, collecting 10K unique estimations /1 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…