Part 1. Gordon Rausser: Scholar, Leader and Entrepreneur -- Chapter 1. On the Essence of Leadership: Lessons from Gordon Rausser -- Chapter 2. Scholar, Entrepreneur and Editorial Innovator -- Chapter 3. Gordon Rausser: Impacts on the World Food System -- Chapter 4. Gordon Rausser and the...

This paper focuses on recent theoretical developments in political economy and what role they might play in explaining and reforming individual country and global distortions in food and agricultural markets. Four groups of forces are isolated: political governance structures emphasizing the...

This paper investigates the relationship between market potential and the spatial variation in the number and the average size of firms. We adapt the canonical model of the New Economic Geography to demonstrate this relationship and to derive an empirical specification suitable for estimation...

Space matters not only by inducing transport costs but also by mitigating pollution damages. Previous models of pollution either disregard space altogether or presume a predetermined separation between polluters and pollutees. In our model, workers commute to factories and all possible location...