Professor Andrew Schmitz, Ph.D., D.Litt. is the Ben Hill Griffin, Jr. Eminent Scholar and Professor at the University of Florida (1994-present), a research professor at the University of California (Berkeley, 1994-present), an adjunct Professor at t
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Professor Andrew Schmitz, Ph.D., D.Litt. is the Ben Hill Griffin, Jr. Eminent Scholar and Professor at the University of Florida (1994-present), a research professor at the University of California (Berkeley, 1994-present), an adjunct Professor at the University of Saskatchewan (1986-present) and was the Honorary Chair in the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Law, and the Environment at the University of Saskatchewan (2001-2003). His teaching and research interests include international trade, marketing, benefit-cost analysis, and anti-trust economics. He is a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA). His publications have won six major research awards and three research of enduring quality awards from the AAEA, and two major awards from the Canadian Agricultural Economics Association. He was awarded the Who’s Who in America in 2004 and the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. He has been a consultant to hundreds of private and public organizations. Some of his recent books include: The Welfare Economics of Public Policy (Elgar Publishing); Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness, and Rent-Seeking Behavior (University of Toronto Press, first and second edition); Sugar and Related Sweetener Markets (CABI Publishing); and The Economics of Alternative Energy Sources and Globalization (Bentham Publishing).
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