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The Role of Economic Analysis in Local Government Decision Making—A Public Choice Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

George R. McDowell
George R. McDowell*
Affiliation:
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts
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Abstract

Conventional economic theory suggests that economists’ contribution to local government is primarily with respect to the production function type of knowledge. A characterization of local government decision making exposes some limitations on applicability of economic analysis of that kind. Public choice perspectives to local government help to redefine and elaborate the role of economic analysis in instructing local government decision making.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , April 1980 , pp. 67 - 73
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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