Forest Economics before and after 1979 seen from my window

This editorial deals with the development of Forest Economics and its relation to Economics. It is a biased one and the purpose is certainly not to cover all aspects of the field. One reason for this rather narrow view is that I started as a pure economist and has spent only nine years as a professor of forest economics. I have, however, never left the topic, even if I left my position as professor to take up a position in labour economics, which I, by the way, have mistreated to be able to work with resource and environmental economics. Another...