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Food for fuel: The price of ethanol
Dominic K. Albino, Karla Z. Bertrand, Yaneer Bar-Yam
Conversion of corn to ethanol in the US since 2005 has been a major cause of global food price increases during that time and has been shown to be ineffective in achieving US energ…
A Complex Systems Science Approach to Healthcare Costs and Quality
Yaneer Bar-Yam with Shlomiya Bar-Yam, Karla Z. Bertrand, Nancy Cohen +3
There is a mounting crisis in delivering affordable healthcare in the US. For decades, key decision makers in the public and private sectors have considered cost-effectiveness in h…
UPDATE February 2012 - The Food Crises: Predictive validation of a quantitative model of food prices including speculators and ethanol conversion
Marco Lagi, Yavni Bar-Yam, Karla Z. Bertrand +1
Increases in global food prices have led to widespread hunger and social unrest---and an imperative to understand their causes. In a previous paper published in September 2011, we…