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            JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND 
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                         Grady Perdue 
                              
                   University of Houston-Clear Lake 
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
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                                   EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD 
                 
                 
                Kavous Ardalan                               Lari H. Arjomand  
                Marist College                               Clayton State University 
                                                              
                Selahattin Bekmez                            Nancy Jean Burnett  
                Mugla University, Mugla, Turkey              University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh 
                                                              
                Martine Duchatelet                           Tyrone Ferdnance  
                Purdue University Calumet                    Hampton University 
                                                              
                Sudip Ghosh                                  Robert Graber  
                Penn State University, Berks Campus          University of Arkansas-Monticello 
                                                              
                Joshua Hall                                  Lester Hadsell 
                Beloit College                               State University of New York, 
                                                             College at Oneonta 
                                                              
                Ihtsham ul Haq                               Jeff Jewell 
                Federal Urdu University for Arts Science and  Lipscomb University 
                Technology                                    
                 
                George Langelett                             Marty Ludlum 
                South Dakota State University                Oklahoma City Community College 
                                                              
                Anne Macy                                    John G. Marcis  
                West Texas A&M University                    Coastal Carolina University 
                                                              
                Simon K. Medcalfe                            LaVelle Mills  
                Augusta State University                     West Texas A&M University 
                                                              
                Amlan Mitra                                  Ernest R. Moser 
                Purdue University-Calumet                    University of Tennessee at Martin 
                                                              
                Gbadebo Olusegun Odulara                     Grady Perdue  
                Agricultural Research in Africa              University of Houston-Clear Lake 
                Accra, Ghana                                  
                 
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                James W. Slate                                Margo Sorgman 
                Catawba College                               Indiana University Kokomo  
                 
                Gary L. Stone                                 Neil Terry  
                Winthrop University                           West Texas A&M University 
                                                               
                Mark Tuttle                                   Yoav Wachsman 
                Sam Houston State University                  Coastal Carolina University  
                 
                Rae Weston                                     
                Macquarie Graduate School of Management 
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