Assistant Professor
Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
Michigan State University
213 Agriculture Hall
East Lansing, MI 48864

Business Phone: (517) 353-9460
Business Fax: (517) 432-1800
E-mail: scorsone@msu.edu

Dr. Eric Scorsone is an Assistant Professor for State & Local Government in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University. Prior to coming to Michigan, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Director of Kentucky Rural Health Works at the University of Kentucky, Economist for the Colorado Governor’s Office of State Planning and Budget and as Senior Economist for the City of Aurora, Colorado. He received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Colorado State University in Local Public Finance and an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University and a B.B.A. from Loyola University of Chicago.

Eric’s extension and outreach education work focuses on assisting communities in the areas of state and local public finance, local government service delivery, intergovernmental agreements and strategic planning. He provides formal training to county, city and township officials in the areas of intergovernmental cooperation, public finance, budgeting and general government. He has also worked on international development projects in Macedonia, Indonesia and Thailand.