Commodity Markets: October 2008 Archives

It is interesting to see how the current financial crisis is changing the way that we think about the world. This point was driven home for me when I had the opportunity to attend a symposium last week in Berkeley, CA entitled "Causes and Consequences of the Food Price Crisis" (click here for details). Sponsored by the Giannini Foundation, the symposium featured faculty from the agricultural and resource economics departments at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Davis.