Econ-o'food • Food Economics

Why is breakfast so expensive?

This blog post first appeared in the C-FARE newsletter for March 2025. Grocery prices are back in the headlines. Food

Our 11th annual class potluck was back at home! To see the context, check out posts on previous events featuring

After three years of you-know-what, we returned for a 9th edition of the econo’food potluck last week. One change for

I just updated my favorite one-slide picture of change since the early 1970s: You may want to click on the

By Leah Costlow & Will Masters More than 7 months into the pandemic, America remains in upheaval. Massive job losses,

One of the hardest tasks in economics is to recognize and understand self-interest without condoning selfishness. There is some evidence

A Friedman alum recently sent me a draft plan for how to fix the broken U.S. food system, wondering what

This semester’s all-school speaker series ended with two panels on COVID-19, first on disease forecasting from Elena Naumova & Ryan

The slide deck can be downloaded here. Feel free to adapt & use! Slide #3 is a gif showing spread

Public outreach generally works better on twitter, but here is a blog version of some posts there about COVID-19 in