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Vincent H. Smith, Ryan Nabil, Christopher B. Barrett, Stephanie Mercier, and Erin Lentz

Vincent H. Smith is the director of agricultural policy studies and a visiting scholar at American Enterprise Institute. He is also a professor of economics in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. Ryan Nabil is a global macroeconomy and agricultural policy researcher at AEI. Also contributing to this are Christopher B. Barrett, a professor of economics at Cornell University; Stephanie Mercier, a principal at Agricultural Perspectives and former Senate Agricultural Committee chief economist; and Erin Lentz, an assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.