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Pages 153-156

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... JAMES T BONNEN is professor emeritus of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University.
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... He currently serves on the advisory board of the Trust for Public Lands and is a past member of the board of the American Association of Agricultural Economics. He also worked as an agricultural economist at the Economic Research Service in the early 1970s and served as director of the American Agricultural Economic Association.
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... His major areas of work have been international trade and agricultural policy. He is a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry and of the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
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... He directed interdisciplinary research in statistical mapping, survey design, and work in customer satisfaction. In addition to his acting director duties for the Committee on National Statistics, he has served as deputy director for the committee and as study director for the Panel on Alternative Census Methodologies and the Panel to Review the Statistical Procedures for the Decennial Census.
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  • rural development
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  • purdue university
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  • michigan department
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