Public value conference papers available
My paper, “Creating Public Value with Tax and Spending Policies,” for the Center for Integrative Leadership’s Creating Public Value Conference is now available online, along with the other foundation papers for the conference. And my contributed paper for the same conference, co-authored with Lisa Hinz and Scott Chazdon, is available with the other contributed papers here.
Less obesity, lower costs?
Today in her blog, “Food Politics,” Marion Nestle summarizes some recent estimates from the Campaign to End Obesity of the cost of obesity in the United States. Nestle sounds reluctant to take the estimates at face value, but admits, “One thing is clear: obesity is expensive, personally, economically, and politically.”
Creating Public Value with Fiscal Policy
Have you studied the scholarship on defining, measuring, and creating public value outside of Cooperative Extension? Wonder how disciplines other than economics define and discuss public value? (Spoiler alert: They don’t all see eye to eye with economists!) Then you may be interested in an upcoming conference sponsored by the Center for Integrative Leadership at the University of Minnesota.
Talking public value at ANREP?
A few days ago Eli Sagor posted the photo below in his Flickr (TM) stream, captioning it, “Marshall Stewart talks about communicating Extension’s public value at #ANREP12.” So, apparently public value was being created at the recent conference of the Association of Natural Resource and Extension Professionals (ANREP)!