Agricultural and Applied Economics—Without Apology
A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Buck Joffrey for his Wealth Formula podcast.
Over the course of our half-hour chat, we talked about the drivers of food crises, whether we are currently in a food crisis, what effect rising food prices will have on Americans, and whether we should expect social unrest–and where.
You can listen to the whole thing here (my segment begins at the 5:30 mark).
A few months ago I was interview by Aadi Gholchha for his podcast The Economics Review. In the course of the interview, we discussed my book and the general state of the economics profession.
You can listen to the interview here (but note that the final product sounds like it has been slowed down, lowering the pitch of my voice and making me sound like an anonymous witness on 60 Minutes!)
Fresh from the newly released Journal Citations Report, here is the new top 5 of journals in the “agricultural economics and policy” category:
The number to the right of each journal name is the journal’s impact factor, which has been calculated on the basis of calendar year 2021 citation numbers.
Congratulations to the editors of the CJAE, whose decision to publish a special issue on COVID-19 before anyone else did paid off handsomely (and also demonstrates the power of Stackelberg first movers). Of note is the fact that the CJAE’s new impact factor places them in… the top five of all economics journals! I wish them luck in handling the incoming Old Testament-grade flood of submissions that one would expect this to bring.
Gentle ribbing of my Canadian colleagues aside, this has not been a good year for the AJAE, which I have been co-editing since January 2020, as our impact factor went from 4 to 3.757; our ranking also tumbled to tenth in the Agricultural Economics and Policy category. A small silver lining is the fact that by impact factor, the AJAE is slightly behind the Journal of Health Economics and slightly ahead of the Economic Journal.