Episode 64: Antoine Champetier (http://ecoecomodeling.com/) is an agricultural and natural resource economist. He builds models that combine economics and ecology and has focused on pollination and beekeeping economics as a case study of ecosystem service institutions and policies.

He was trained as an agronomist at AgroParisTech in France and holds a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California in Davis. He has taught at the ETH in Zurich. He is a visiting lecturer and researcher at UC Davis and a consultant for private and public institutions. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland.

This episode's motto: "Bees are like migrant workers: always needed, but sometimes abused."

Links:

Pollination in the United States:

http://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/theme-articles/pollination-service-markets-evolution-and-outlook

Cheung (1973) "Fable of the Bees"

https://www.jstor.org/stable/724823