TY - JOUR AU - Suttles, Shellye PY - 2019/03/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Time for Macroeconomics in Municipal Food Policy JF - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JA - J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev. VL - 8 IS - 4 SE - Voices from the Grassroots DO - 10.5304/jafscd.2019.084.023 UR - https://foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/686 SP - 29-32 AB - <p><em>First paragraph:</em></p><p>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. . . .</p> ER -