About this episode
<p>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.</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li><strong>SOURCES:</strong> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/alexandra-sapoznik" rel="noopener noreferrer">Alex Sapoznik</a>, historian, reader in late medieval history at King’s College London.</li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hiatt-689a91a/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chris Hiatt</a>, past president of the American Honey Producers Association, owner of Hiatt Honey Company.</li> <li><a href="https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/michael-t-roberts" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michael Roberts</a>, founding executive director of the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy at U.C.L.A. Law School.</li> <li><a href="https://cals.ncsu.edu/agricultural-and-resource-economics/people/wthurman/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Walter "Wally" Thurman</a>, professor emeritus of agricultural economics at North Carolina State University.</li> </ul></li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li><strong>RESOURCES:</strong> <ul> <li>"<a href="https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/chart-detail?chartId=89167" rel="noopener noreferrer">U.S. honey is increasingly supplied through imports</a>," by David Olsen <i>(USDA Economic Research Service,</i> 2018).</li> <li>"<a href="https://ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/publications/88117/ERR-246.pdf?v=41171" rel="noopener noreferrer">Economic Effects and Responses to Changes in Honey Bee Health</a>," by Peyton Ferrier, Randal Rucker, Walter Thurman, and Michael Burgett <i>(USDA Economic Research Service,</i> 2018).</li> <li>"<a href="https://gwern.net/doc/economics/mechanism-design/1973-cheung.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Fable of the Bees: An Economic Investigation</a>," by Steven Cheung <i>(The Journal of Law and Economics,</i> 1973).</li> <li>"<a href="https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/sugar-and-sweeteners-yearbook-tables/visualization-meeting-honey-demand-in-the-united-states" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables - Visualization: Meeting honey demand in the United States</a>," <i>(USDA Economic Research Service)</i>.</li> </ul></li> </ul><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>