Research Catalog

Title

What's economics worth? : valuing policy research / edited by Philip G. Pardey and Vincent H. Smith.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• International Food Policy Research Institute. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79026884
• Pardey, Philip G.
• Smith, Vincent H.

Description

xviii, 318 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Economic policy
• Economics > Evaluation
• Policy sciences

Note

• "Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Overview / Philip G. Pardey and Vincent H. Smith -- 2. The economics research industry / Vincent H. Smith, Philip G. Pardey and Connie Chan-Kang -- 3. Assessing the benefits of economics research : what are the problems? / Paul Krugman -- 4. The relevance of economists / Arnold Harberger -- 5. The benefits of social science research / Vincent H. Smith and John Freebairn -- 6. Adding value through policy-oriented research : reflections of a scholar-practitioner / C. Peter Timmer -- 7. Second thoughts on a framework for evaluating agricultural economics research / Bob Lindner -- 8. Trade policy and economic development : how we learn / Anne O. Krueger -- 9. Returns to policy-related social science research in agriculture / Bruce Gardner -- 10. Measuring the benefits of policy-oriented social science research : evidence from two developing countries / George W. Norton and Jeffrey Alwang -- 11. Rice trade policies in Vietnam : the impact of policy-oriented economics research / James G. Ryan -- 12. The value of economics research / David Zilberman and Amir Heiman -- 13. What's economics worth? A summing up / Philip G. Pardey and Vincent H. Smith.

ISBN

• 080187940X (alk. paper)
• 0801879418 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004042159

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries