The Time for Macroeconomics in Municipal Food Policy
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2019.084.023
Keywords:
Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, Food Systems, CommentaryAbstract
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It’s interesting—I’ve never felt like so much of an outsider as being an agricultural economist working on municipal food policy. And I’m a black woman in the United States. Prior to being the food policy and program coordinator for the City of Indianapolis, I was a research economist who studied local food systems, alternative energy, and climate change. Now, as a food policy practitioner, I have found that relevant aspects of classical macroeconomic theory often go ignored in municipal food policy, particularly the concept of economic change over time. . . .
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