Department of Applied Economics
218e Classroom-Office Building
1994 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108-6040

(612) 625-5238 (Phone)
(612) 625-6245 (Fax)
E-mail: dlevins@umn.edu

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Dr. Richard A. Levins is a native of Florida. He received his BA in Mathematics and his MS in Food and Resource Economics from the University of Florida in Gainesville. His doctorate in Agricultural Economics was earned at Mississippi State University. Before joining the University of Minnesota in 1988, he served on the faculty of the University of Maryland and the University of Florida.

Dr. Levins has authored or co-authored over 150 professional papers, popular articles, books, book reviews, and conference presentations. His professional articles have appeared in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Choices, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, American Journal of Alternative Agriculture, Journal of Production Agriculture, and Land Economics. His book Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm, a story of farm policy and family farming in the twentieth century, won the American Agricultural Economics Association Quality of Communication Award.

Dr. Levins was honored as a Food and Society Policy Fellow during 2001-2003. His writing has appeared in many major newspapers including the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the Detroit Free Press. He also writes regularly for major trade publications including Hoard's Dairyman and Successful Farming. He often does radio interviews and has been a guest on CNN's In the Money program.

Dr. Levins retired in 2003 from an academic life that included Extension appointments and teaching first-year economics, the history of U.S. agriculture, and resaerch methods for graduate students. He maintains an active practice in consulting, writing, and speaking.

Dr. Levins's book Market Power for Farmers: What It Is, How to Get It, How to Use It can be purchased from the Institute for Rural America at 1-800-858-6636.

Dr. Levins's book Middle Class * Union Made is available at www.middleclassunionmade.com.