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• Wednesday April 9, 2008, Reuters published Kevin P. Gallagher's Op-ed piece opposing the Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Click here to read the article.

• Tufts Daily highlights GDAE's recent announcement to award the 2008 Leontief Prize to two prominent economists, Robert Wade and José Antonio Ocampo.

• Tim Wise is quoted in the February 1, 2008 Houston Chronicle article on Mexico's recent farm protests.Click here to read the article.

• The Tufts Daily highlighted a book talk by Kevin P. Gallagher and Ha-Joon Chang at Tufts Fletcher School on January 28, 2008. Click here to read the article.

• The prominent agribusiness publication Feedstuffs presented Elanor Starmer and Tim Wise's two recent papers on the gains to industrialized livestock from low feed prices and lax environmental enforcement.  The feature article ran in the December 31, 2007 issue, based on an extensive interview with Tim Wise.  The reporter presents the papers' main findings -- that industrial livestock saved $35 billion in below-cost feed from 1997-2005, and that mid-sized hog farmers who grow their own feed would have lower operating costs than large confinement operations if the latter had to pay full cost for feed and for safe disposal of manure.Click here to read the article.

• Kevin P. Gallagher was quoted in the December 10, Miami Herald in an article about the performance of US Trade Agreements in the Americas. Click here to read the article.

• Tim Wise published a letter to the editor in the Financial Times on December 6, 2007. In the letter, Wise argues that US Senator and Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton is right to rethink US trade policy. Click here to read the article.
  

• October 18, 2007, the 2007 Leontief Prize Award Ceremony to honor Stephen DeCanio and Jomo K.S. was featured in the Tufts E-News article "In Pursuit Of A Better Economics" as well as in the Tufts Daily article "Leontief prize-winners speak about distribution of wealth, climate change."
  

• GDAE Senior Researcher Kenneth Shadlen published a letter to the editor in the Financial Times on September 27 that outlined the limits of regional trade agreements for developing countries. Click here to read the article.

• Jonathan Harris was interviewed by Marketplace on NPR's Day to Day June 20th, about recent reports that China has surpassed the U.S as the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases.  He stressed that U.S. per capita emissions are four times those of China, so the main responsibility for reducing emissions still rests with the U.S. and other developed nations. Click here to listen to the report.

• Tim Wise is quoted widely in a recent article in the In These Times newspaper of June 4, 2007, "Whose Subsidy Is It Anyway? Farmers Take the Heat, but Big Ag Reaps the Farm Bill Benefits." The article also cites Elanor Starmer's work on implicit subsidies to industrial livestock feed. Click here to read the article.

• Tim Wise is quoted extensively in "Deal or No Deal," a feature article in the May issue of World Trade magazine. The article focuses on the conflicts over agriculture in the WTO. Click here to read the article.

• GDAE's recent report on feed prices and industrial livestock was featured in an article in the May 30th edition of the Illinois' newspaper, The Pantagraph, by the prominent midwestern columnist, Alan Guebert. Click here to read the article.

• The GDAE Policy Brief by Tim Wise and Elanor Starmer, "Industrial Livestock Companies' Gains from Low Feed Prices, 1997-2005," was featured on the cover of the prominent weekly industry magazine, Feedstuffs (March 26, 2007). The article was based on an extensive interview with Tim Wise and included the estimates of the gains to individual corporate livestock firms from feed priced below cost. The article comes at a time of active debate in Washington over the Farm Bill and over the recent increases in feed prices due to the ethanol-driven run-up in corn prices.Click here to read the article.

• April 9, 2007, in an article published by Policy Innovations, entitled "Greening U.S. Trade," Kevin P. Gallagher argues that U.S. trade bills must have significant environmental provisions if these bills are to pass through the new Congress. Click here to read the article.

• March 6, 2007, Tim Wise is quoted extensively in an article in Food Systems Insider on debates over the next U.S. Farm Bill, currently being negotiated.  Drawing on his research into U.S. agricultural subsidies, farm income, and the ways in which U.S. agribusiness, not farmers, benefit from current farm programs, Wise argues that neither subsidies nor the withdrawal of government support are viable solutions. Click here to read the article.
  
  
• February 1, 2007, in a feature article entitled "Books without borders give low-income libraries a major boost," The Tufts Daily chronicles the experience of the Social Science Library Project's Outreach Associates. Click here to read the article.
  
  
• October 25, 2006, Leontief Prize recipients Juliet Schor and Samuel Bowles were featured in Tufts Journal "Scholars honored for boundary-breaking work in economics." Click here to read the article.
  
  
• October 6, 2006, the Leontief Prize recipients Juliet Schor and Samuel Bowles were featured in the Tufts Daily News article "Leontief Prize awarded to trail-blazing economists." Click here to read the article.
  
  
• September 27, 2006, Neva Goodwin, was interviewed on Maine radio, WERU. The interview is available for listening at: http://shows.weru.org/archives/2006/09/
  
  
• August 7, 2006, Medscape featured an article by Julie A. Nelson and Nancy Folbre, "Why a Well-Paid Nurse is a Better Nurse." Click here to read the article.
  
  
• May 14, 2006, GDAE announces the Annual Leontief Prize to be awarded to Samuel Bowles and Juliet Schor. The October ceremony lectures will honor the late John Kenneth Galbraith. Click here to read more about the announcement.
  
  
• The January/February 2006 issue of Orion magazine featured an essay by Neva Goodwin titled, "The High Cost of Low Prices".Click here to read the article.
  
  
• GDAE researchers presented at the WTO meetings in Hong Kong December 13-18, and received considerable press coverage on their Doha Round analysis. Click here to read more.
  
  
• December 8, 2005, Timothy A. Wise was interviewed in Top Producer magazine about the misuse of statistics in U.S. agricultural policy, in an article titled, "Future Vision: Do farm statistics lie?" Click here to read the article.
  

• November 25, 2005, critical assesements of the Doha Round projections, "Shrinking Gains from Trade" papers by Frank Ackerman, Timothy A. Wise, and Kevin P. Gallagher receive press as trade talks gear up for the WTO meeting in Hong Kong. Click here to read the press articles.
  
  
• November 20, 2005, Lyuba Zarsky, GDAE Research Associate, was interviewed in AVUI, Barcelona, Spain, on USA-China Relations. Click here to read the article in Basque.
  Click here to read the interview in English.
  
  
• Neva Goodwin was the featured guest interview in the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century Fall 2005 Newsletter article titled: "Neva Goodwin on the Future of the Economy and a World of Well-Being." Click here to read the article.
  
  
• November 7, 2005, Kevin Gallagher commented on the failed FTAA talks in Argentina on New England Cable News' "Good Morning Live." Click here to view the interview.
  
  
• November 3, 2005, Frank Ackerman's GDAE Working Paper, "The Shrinking Gains from Trade: A Critical Assessment of Doha Round Projections" was quoted in a CongressDaily article about the Doha Round trade negotiations. Click here to read the article.
  
  
• October 28, 2005, the Leontief Prize recipients Richard R. Nelson and Ha-Joon Chang were featured in the Tufts Daily News article "Professors get Leontief economics prize." Click here to read the article.

• September 20, 2005 GDAE Co-Director William Moomaw's home was featured in BusinessWeek Online in the article, "A House That Costs Nothing to Run." Click here to view the article.
  
  
• September 18, 2005 The Boston Globe published a letter to the editor, "Baby Steps," by Julie A. Nelson criticizing the atititude of low expectations of the head of the new state Department of Early Education and Care. Read the letter.
  
  
• On July 28, 2005 Timothy Wise's working paper, "Understanding the Farm Problem: Six Common Errors in Presenting Farm Statistics," was the basis for a Congress Daily AM article titled, "Researcher: Critics Misuse Statistics To Bash Farm Subsidies." A portion of the article was also featured on Agdayta.com on August 3. Click here to view the Congress Daily article.
  
  
• July 9, 2005 Kevin Gallagher featured on National Public Radio's "Living on Earth." On the show Gallagher discusses the environmental implications of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The show was broadcast on over 250 stations across the US. Click here to listen to the interview.
  

• The Summer 2005 issue of Co-op America, in an article titled "Green Business Education," describes three ways in which people can learn about environmental issues in business and economics. The articles praises Microeconomics in Context, the introductory college textbook by Neva Goodwin, Julie A.Nelson, Frank Ackerman and Thomas Weisskopf, as a text that “helps students look at economics through a wider lens, factoring in variables such as human well-being, ecological balance, and economic activities of actors such as nonprofits and governments.” Click here to see the article.
  
  
• On May 16, 2005, Neva Goodwin was featured in Grist Magazine in an article titled, "Neva Goodwin, ecological economist, answers Grist's questions," in their column "Interactivist: Q&A with environmental foot soldiers: " Click here to see the article.
  
  
• On April 11, 2005 Frank Ackerman's op-ed article about REACH was published in Parliament Magazine, a magazine from Brussels (in English) that follows European Union events. Click here to see the article.
  
  
• An op-ed criticizing the environmental aspects of CAFTA by Kevin Gallagher, which first appeared in The Providence Journal on April 11, 2005 was picked up by Scripps wire service and has been published in several papers across the country such as the Sacramento Bee, St. Paul Star Tribune, The News Tribune in Tacoma, Washington and others. Click here to see the article.
  
  
• On March 31, 2005, The Economist published a column, "The regulators' best friend?", commenting on the critique of cost-benefit analysis by the Center for Progressive Regulation, quoting things written by Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling (although not mentioning them by name). Click here to see the article.
  
  
• March 8, 2005, The Tufts Daily published an article, "University to honor economists," on this year's Leontief Prize which will be awarded to noted development economists Dr. Ha-Joon Chang of Cambridge University and Dr. Richard R. Nelson of Columbia University on October 27, 2005. Click here to see the article.
  
  
• In February 2005 Kevin Gallagher was interviewed in EcoAmericas in an article titled "Testing Two Views Of Trade's Environmental Impacts." Click here to see the article.
  
  
• October 16, 2004, the study on the impacts of foreign direct investment on Mexico's economy published by GDAE researchers Kevin Gallagher and Lyuba Zarsky in February 2004 was extensively quoted in one of Mexico City's largest daily newspapers, La Jornada. The article discusses the fact that foreign investment in Mexico is not spurring economic development in the country, and cites how the GDAE study has shown that foreign investment-led growth is accentuating social and environmental problems in Mexico.
  Click here to see article (in Spanish)
  
  
• September 23, 2004, The San Francisco Chronicle provided an Open forum for Kevin Gallagher on the lessons to be learned from NAFTA ten years later titled "Trading Away the Environment?". Click here to see article
  
  
• "Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing" by Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling has received wide press coverage in: the Harvard Law Review, The American Prospect, the New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and The San Diego Union-Tribune. Click here for reviews and articles of "Priceless."
  
  
• Neva Goodwin is interviewed in the April 5, 2004 edition of BusinessWeek in an article, "A Bigger Voice for Small Nonprofits," on how foundations and non-profits are taking an activist stance on corporate proxies. Click here to read the article.
  
  
• Tim Wise is cited on agricultural subsidies by syndicated columnist Alan Guebert in the article, "WTO struggles endlessly to reinvent the trade wheel." Click here to read the article.
  
  
• The March 2004 issue of Better Homes & Gardens quotes Neva Goodwin in an article, "Good Skills Make Good Neighbors," that discusses neighborhood exchanges and alternative currencies such as "Time Dollars". Click here to read the article.
  
  
• Kevin Gallagher states that foreign investments in Mexico as a result of NAFTA did not translate into growth or jobs in a USA Today article, "10 Years Ago, NAFTA Was Born," on December 31, 2003. Click here to read the article.
  
  
• December 1, 2003, The Christian Science Monitor examines Brian Roach's research on the drift towards flatter taxes in the U.S. in the article, "US moves - quietly - toward a flat tax." Click here to read the article.
  
  
• Op-ed on the FTA by Kevin Gallagher published in The Miami Herald, October 17, 2003, "Time to listen to our neighbors." Click here to read the article.
  
  
• Frank Ackerman asks if we should be trying harder to throw less away.
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• September 16, 2003, Kevin Gallagher weighs in on Global Trade issue in The Boston Globe article, "A setback for global free trade." Click here to read the article.
  
  
• September 16, 2003, The Boston Herald article, "Chemical safety in activist push," reports on GDAE study of costs of childhood illnesses. Click here to read the Herald article




• The GDAE working paper, "Read My Lips: More New Tax Cuts - The Distributional Impacts of Repealing Dividend Taxation" by Brian Roach, was extensively cited in a March 31, 2003 article in The Christian Science Monitor. Click here to read the article.
  
  
• March 24, 2003 Newsweek article, "Do college intro-economics courses need a ‘more balanced perspective’?", describes the "buzz" around GDAE's forthcoming microeconomics textbook, quoting lead author, Neva Goodwin. Click here to read the article.
  
  
• Chronicle of Higher Education quotes "Microeconomics in Context" in describing the "Challenges to Mainstream Economic Theory and Teaching" in the January 24, 2003 issue. Click here to read the article.