If you know anything about the regulation of agriculture, you know it’s a mess. Subsidies distort production in rich countries, penalizing taxpayers at home and undermining the prospects of poor farmers from Thailand to India to Uganda. But here’s a nice surprise: according to the …
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By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: butter mountain, Common Agricultural Policy, European Union, farm subsidies, wine lake | Category: Agriculture Regulation |
 Leave a commentIt’s old news that Google is being investigated for abusing its dominant (as in, 90 percent-plus) market share in Internet searches. Seems a whole bunch of companies that compete with Google are complaining that Big G is discriminating by demoting them to lesser positions on search results. And the European … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Anti-trust, Attorney General, European Union, Google, Microsoft | Category: Antitrust, Internet regulation |
Leave a commentAh, the glories of sugar politics… In case you missed it, the price of sugar in the US is up 30 percent in the last year. And, responding to heavy lobbying from commercial users of sucrose – mostly commercial bakeries and candy makers — the Department of Agriculture … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: European Union, Everglades, high-fructose corn syrup, sugar, USDA | Category: International Trade |
Leave a commentAs if Google didn’t have enough trouble in Europe, the Federal Trade Commission has opened a second front against the company. The FTC’s concern – that Google’s proposed merger with AdMob would allow it to dominate in mobile phone advertising – has little to … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AdMob, dynamic competition, European Union, Federal Trade Commission, Google, Microsoft | Category: Antitrust, Quick Takes |
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Professor Dieter Helm (Oxford) is a very fine fly fisherman, and an even better economist. If you haven’t done so, take a look at his new book “The Carbon Crunch: How We Are Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It” for a bit of unconventional wisdom. He argues that politicians and the general public have not shown any real interest in addressing climate change. Helm argues that places like Europe should focus on setting a price for carbon that would cover consumption (and not just production), and that fracking could be a good “bridge” technology for reducing consumption of coal. The book is readable and insightful for those interested in the inside track on climate policy. 
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