I am grateful to have been awarded both of the student-nominated, university-wide teaching awards at Tufts, as one of the five Teaching With Technology awardees on two occasions (2019 and 2022), and also as the StAAR Center‘s Disability Advocate Awardee for 2021-22.  I was also awarded the Friedman School’s own Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year for 2019-20.

The content of my classes is summarized in the new introductory textbook, Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition and Health, with supporting materials at my teaching blog: https://sites.tufts.edu/foodeconomics.

More advanced students will want to use our 87-page chapter in the Handbook of Agricultural Economics, with over 300 citations to recent work on The economics of malnutrition: Dietary transition and food system transformation, also available as a PDF preprint.

Courses at Tufts:

• NUTR 238–Economics of Food, Agriculture & Nutrition (Spring 2025 syllabus, info on enrollment in SIS, or University College single-course option)
     Same course, new name to more accurately reflect course content; taught in person each Spring.  
• NUTB 238–Economics for Food & Nutrition Policy (Fall 2024 syllabus)
      Last edition with the old name — taught online with prerecorded lectures, otherwise similar to the in-person version.  
• EC 91 — Food Economics (summer 2015 in photogenic Talloires)
• Friedman Seminar (Fall 2011-Fall 2014)

Previous  (if links still work):

       At Purdue University:

• My farewell lecture for grad students at Purdue (2010)
• AGEC 340 – International Economic Development (Spring 2010)
• AGEC 640 — Agricultural Policy (Fall 2009)
• AGEC 450 – International Agricultural Trade (Fall 2005)
• AGEC 620 — Computational Analysis of Markets and Policies (Fall 2004)

       At Columbia University:

• INAF U4235 – Economics of Food and Agriculture (Spring 2004)

Ancient teaching materials

• Freakonomics: Why are kiwis so cheap? (2009), an experiment in goofy doggerel
• Market Failure: An Example From Africa (2005), a 20-minute video on quality information for infant foods.
• The Economic Impact of Agricultural Research: A Practical Guide (2003), with spreadsheet exercises; available in French with an earlier English version.
• Hands-On Econ (1997), an early interactive computerized textbook for applied microeconomics (initially run from a disk, now on the Wayback Machine).
• I-TRADE (1997), a face-to-face world-market simulation exercise for classroom use (played with physical cards and paper, not a computer)
• Guidelines on National Comparative Advantage and Agricultural Trade (1995), APAP Methods and Guidelines Series 40001.  Abt Associates (74 pages).