From the Editor
编辑担忧评审过程可能淘汰看似离奇但重要的思想，且数学形式主义盛行正排挤无法用形式化表达的经济学经典思想，对学者和期刊有警示意义。
Among the things that editors worry about is whether or not in the review process, we eliminate from broader distribution those articles expressing ideas that, at the moment, may seem a little farfetched.This has another component, which is the failure of a journal to receive such articles if the perception exists that there is little chance of getting them published.The recent increase in the formalistic articulation of economic concepts raises the prospect that the time will come when some economic ideas of great import will not see the light of day because they do not lend themselves to expression in such form.In my discussions with a number of economists, the point is often raised that all journals are becoming more formal (mathematical), and this is a cause for concern on the part of everyone I talk with-including those whose mathematical skills are not only well developed, but often on display.The general concern is that this dominant form of communication precludes the type of thought process that was so much a part of the classical tradition in our discipline.This does not mean that formal models of either a theoretical or an empirical nature are irrelevant to our discourse over economics and natural resource policy.But it does mean that many good ideas and important concepts that do not lend themselves to formalistic expression are being driven out of economics