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Why Economists Should Talk to Scientists and What They Should Ask: Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Wesley N. Musser*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland

Extract

Before I built a wall I'ld ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,

And to whom I was like to give offense.

Something there is that doesn't like a wall,

That wants it down …

He says again,

‘Good fences make good neighbors.’

—Robert Frost, “Mending Wall”

Type
Invited Paper Sessions
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1997

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