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.
 
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 <li>SOURCES:
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 <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>
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 <li>RESOURCES:
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 <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 (USDA Economic Research Service, 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 (USDA Economic Research Service, 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 (The Journal of Law and Economics, 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>," (USDA Economic Research Service).</li>
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