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Aaron Hedlund

Assistant professor of economics at the University of Missouri

Aaron Hedlund is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Missouri and a visiting senior fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University.

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How pork-barrel spending shapes the ideological composition of Congress

July 12, 2018
In classrooms across the country, economics professors often use the phrase “guns and butter” as an analogy for the competing priorities nations face when deciding how to allocate resources. Read More