Related to my recent post on scientific collaboration, I’ve finally been invited to join InfoChimps.org, a website and aggregates and searches datasets from users. The site is very young and so far I’ve found very few datasets on concerning fisheries economics save for U.S.A. catch and value data for 1960-2005. For this particular dataset, it [...]

Did you think that academics have nothing to gain from trade? On his blog, Michael Neilson has posted a (somewhat lengthy) discussion about the future of science. In it there is a very interesting section about the economics of scientific collaboration where he describes the following story of fictional Alice and Bob: Alice walks into [...]

One of the projects that I’ve had the pleasure of working on in the past year has been researching government support of the fishing industry around the world. While government may be well-meaning in supporting fishermen when times get tough, subsidizing this industry not only has important implications for free-trade but can augment the incentive [...]