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Corn Futures: Consumer Politics, Health, And Climate Change, Jedediah Purdy, James Salzman Jan 2008

Corn Futures: Consumer Politics, Health, And Climate Change, Jedediah Purdy, James Salzman

Faculty Scholarship

The Mexicans have long been known as the Corn People, but that label perhaps provides a better fit for modern day Americans. The simple seeds of corn play a fundamental role unprecedented in the history of human agriculture. Corn now underpins two major sectors, arguably the two most important sectors, of our modern economy - food supply and energy supply. How we choose to consume this seed has far-ranging consequences for pressing issues as far apart as climate change and diabetes, energy policy and immigration, tropical deforestation and food riots.


Dealing With A Non-Ergodic World: Institutional Economics, Property Rights, And The Global Environment, Douglass C. North Oct 1999

Dealing With A Non-Ergodic World: Institutional Economics, Property Rights, And The Global Environment, Douglass C. North

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.