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The Demand for Economic Policy Analysis: Is Anyone Listening?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Sandra S. Batie
Sandra S. Batie*
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Food and Agricultural Policy in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing
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Economic policy analysis is extremely important for the relevancy of the agricultural economics profession, as applied economics is our professional niche. Economic policy analysis, however, as a public decision-support tool, is a challenging endeavor that is difficult to do well. Furthermore, if analysis is to be an input into public policy formulation and implementation, it is not sufficient for applied economists to merely supply high quality economic policy analysis; there must also be a demand for it. As a profession, applied economists appear to pay more attention to the supply of policy analysis, with less consideration of who wants and will use our analysis, or how they will come to know it.

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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , October 2005 , pp. 123 - 130
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Copyright © 2005 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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