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Honoring the Career and Contributions of Richard E. Just

Wednesday, July 30, 2025
8:00 am – 5:30 pm         
Limited space available 

Brief Description of Topic:
We propose to hold a one-day post-conference workshop honoring and celebrating the fundamental contributions of Richard E. Just to the field of agricultural economics. In a career spanning five decades, Richard E. Just made essential contributions to Agricultural Economics that will continue to influence the field for decades. He changed how economists’ modeling of risky phenomena and made seminal contributions to welfare, adoption, technological change, and agricultural and resource policy economics. In addition to his scholarly works, he served as editor of the AJAE, president of the AAEA, and was selected as a Fellow. He also made fundamental contributions to the lives of those he worked with and mentored.

Intended AudienceThe intend the audience will be a mix of invited scholars, those who worked with Richard Just as colleagues or students, and others who are significantly interested in the history of agricultural and applied economics and the development of the field.

Agenda

Opening session 8:30-9:00 am

  • Welcome and opening remarks

Session I  9:00-10:30

  • Marc Bellemare: The Structural Estimation of Price Risk Preferences
  • Melinda Smale: Reflections on Mentoring, Risk and Adoption
  • Rulon Pope:  R.E. Just’s Econometric Evidence for Risk Response (Aversion) in Agriculture: Contemporary Influences and Descendants

Break 10:15-10:30 AM

 Session II 10:45-12:15

  • David Just: The Other Side
  • Bob Chambers: Theoretical and Personal
  • Gershon Feder, Richard Just and David Just: personal Reflections

 Lunch 12:15 -1:45 PM.

 Session III 1:45-3:15 PM

  • Quinn Weninger: Factor and Resource Rent under Quantity Control Regulation
  • Ariel Ortiz Bobea: Reflections on Advising and Impact on the Profession

Break 3:15-3:45 PM

 Session IV 3:45-5:00 PM. 

  • Andy Schmitz: Integration of Trade, Welfare Economics and Agricultural Policy
  • Gordon Rausser, Richard Just: The Illuminated Mind, a Spiritual Giant Among Scholars
  • David Zilberman: The Pioneering of Modern Agricultural Economics
  • Valedictory remarks from Richard Just 5:00 

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