670. Beeconomics 101

How do beekeepers make a living? Why is there so much honey fraud? And why did billions of bees suddenly disappear? To find out, guest host Steve Levitt activates his hive mind.

• SOURCES:

• Alex Sapoznik (kcl.ac.uk/people/alexandra-sapoznik), historian, reader in late medieval history at King’s College London.

• Chris Hiatt (linkedin.com/in/chris-hiatt-689a91a), past president of the American Honey Producers Association, owner of Hiatt Honey Company.

• Michael Roberts (law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/michael-…), founding executive director of the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy at U.C.L.A. Law School.

• Walter "Wally" Thurman (cals.ncsu.edu/agricultural-and-resource-econom…), professor emeritus of agricultural economics at North Carolina State University.

• RESOURCES:

• "U.S. honey is increasingly supplied through imports (ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/char…)," by David Olsen (USDA Economic Research Service, 2018).

• "Economic Effects and Responses to Changes in Honey Bee Health (ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/p…)," by Peyton Ferrier, Randal Rucker, Walter Thurman, and Michael Burgett (USDA Economic Research Service, 2018).

• "The Fable of the Bees: An Economic Investigation (gwern.net/doc/economics/mechanism-design/1973-…)," by Steven Cheung (The Journal of Law and Economics, 1973).

• "Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables - Visualization: Meeting honey demand in the United States (ers.usda.gov/data-products/sugar-and-sweetener…)," (USDA Economic Research Service).

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