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good post. add some stories about dealing with lobbyists as an economist, and the post will be even more interesting.
by rtfs 10y ago
good post. add some stories about dealing with lobbyists as an economist, and the post will be even more interesting.
- AllegedWisdom 10y agoIn most agencies, economists almost never interact with lobbyists. The lobbyists always aim at senior management, and almost all lobbying takes the form of 'We care about X and we want you to validate that by signalling that you also care about X' or 'We are presenting a credible threat to sue you if you do Y'. This is useful political and tactical information for management, but it does not affect the economic numbers at all. In theory a lobbyist could present useful information about a hard-to-research topic that informs our analysis, but I've never seen that happen.