"AEA Editor Transitions. The AEA Executive Committee is pleased to announce three new editor appointments: Esther Duflo for the American Economic Review, Alexandre Mas for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and Johannes Hörner for the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. The new editors will begin in January 2017. We wish to thank our outgoing Editors Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Esther Duflo and Andrew Postlewaite for their outstanding efforts devoted to making the AEA journals among the most respected scholarly journals in economics."
GOD NO. Is this the recognition paid to a completely clubby and agenda-driven editor who used the AEJ to publish special issues for her and her close family and friends? Is the AER now the land of RCT drones who have little idea about economics? This is very bad.