The Applied Economics journals: a personal reflection

摘要

It gives me very great pleasure to open this conference to celebrate the ruby anniversary - that is to say, the 40th anniversary - of the Applied Economics journals. I am especially pleased to do so not only because of my belief in the importance of applied economics as an area of research and investigation and my belief in the value that the Applied Economics journals have given to the world over the last four decades, but also because of my own very long association with the journals: I was one of the first managing editors of the journals, I have published a number of papers in the journals (the first in 1971 and the latest, to date, in 2001~1), and I continue to this day as an advisory editor.