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The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics

Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters

Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Agricultural Inconsistencies: Senegal

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

It seems like just the other day that Bono was vilifying developed countries for flooding the world markets with cheap food. Consider this excerpt from a news article leading up to the 2006 G8 summit:
In Senegal, a resilient showcase of democracy in a continent otherwise pervaded by corrupt dictatorships and brutal wars, producers of tomatoes […]