Reading Adam Tooze: Global Food Price (Crisis?) [Macropiece Theater, Ep. 170]

According to the FAO Food Price Index, the cost of food has surged in real terms to levels last seen in the 1970s - during the Great Inflation. But another data set, by the OECD shows no such surge at all. What's going on? Is there a food price crisis, or not? A reading, by Emil Kalinowski.

----------WHO----------
Adam Tooze, author of the 2021 book "Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy", a professor of history at Columbia University. His 2018 book "Crashed" was the winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize, a New York Times Notable Book of 2018, one of The Economist's Books of the Year, and a New York Times Critics' Top Book. Read by Emil Kalinowski. Art by David Parkins. Intro/outro is "Alegro" by TAGE at Epidemic Sound.

----------WHAT----------
Chartbook #47: Crisis Talk - Global Food Prices: https://bit.ly/3cWhB88

----------WHERE----------
Adam's Book: https://adamtooze.com/shutdown/
Adam's Substack: https://adamtooze.substack.com/
Adam's Website: https://adamtooze.com/
Adam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/adam_tooze

Emil's Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilKalinowski
David's Art: https://davidparkins.com/

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