Annual Review of Law and Ethics (Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik)
Description: With this journal, the editors intend to permit an international, interdisciplinary
discussion of legal and ethical issues approached from an historical, theoretical or
comparative point of view. Each of the individual volumes emphasizes one particular issue
at the interface of law and philosophy, and also contains contributions from the fields of
economics, sociology and political science.
Commentaries on Law and Economics
Description: Commentaries on Law & Economics provides a forum for discussions in the
interdisciplinary and rapidly expanding field of law & economics.
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Constitutional Political Economy
Publisher: Kluwer
Description: Constitutional Political Economy is a forum for research in the broad area of
constitutional analysis, which lies at the intersection of several approaches in modern
economics, sharing a common interest in the systematic integration of the institutional
dimension - the study of political, legal and moral institutions - into economic analysis.
While its primary discipline is economics, Constitutional Political Economy is explicitly
interdisciplinary, aiming to encourage an exchange between the various social sciences,
including law, philosophy, political science and sociology.
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Critical Review
Description: Critical Review seeks to draw on all of the social sciences in examining the
effects on human well-being--not just on material prosperity--of not only laissez-faire
capitalism and the alternatives to it, but of all other conceivable forms of social life.
For instance, we are interested not only in publishing research on the politics and
economics of the interventionist and redistributive state, and on the economic effects of
capitalism, but anthropological research on the effects of modernity on human happiness;
studies of the influence of capitalism on art; historical work on the origins of the
modern state and its nationalist-liberal development; historical and political-economy
studies of whether that state is a necessary concomitant of modernity, or is instead the
product of popular or intellectual misapprehensions about the failings of capitalism;
political science research on public opinion formation, public ignorance, and the
real-world nature of mass democracy and state bureaucracy; cultural studies of the
dynamics of human desires under capitalism and democracy; and sociological work informed
by (or critical of) state theory as well as classic sociological theory.
Economics and Philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Description: The disciplines of economics and philosophy each possess their own special analytical
methods, whose combination is powerful and fruitful. Each discipline can be enriched by
the other. Economics and Philosophy aims to promote their mutual enrichment by
publishing articles and book reviews in all areas linking these subjects. Topics include
the methodology and epistemology of economics, the foundations of decision theory and game
theory, the nature of rational choice in general, historical work on economics with a
philosophical purpose, ethical issues in economics, the use of economic techniques in
ethical theory, and many other subjects.
Ethics and Economics
Description: Ethique Economique / Ethics and Economics
Games and Economic Behavior
Publisher: Elsevier
Description: "Games and Economic Behavior facilitates cross-fertilization between theories and applications of game theoretic reasoning. It consistently attracts the best quality and most creative papers in interdisciplinary studies within the social, biological, and mathematical sciences. Most readers recognize it as the leading journal in game theory."
Independent Review
Description: The Independent Review is a peer-reviewed quarterly publication devoted to
the study of political economy, broadly construed. It was created to meet
the needs of two audiences: (1) serious general readers who seek a more
detailed analysis of politico-economic issues than is found in most public
affairs magazines, and (2) scholars who wish to keep abreast of
developments in fields related to political economy, including public
policy, history, law, and political philosophy. The main purpose is not to
develop a particular discipline but to advance the reader's understanding
of the multifaceted reality to which the term "political economy" refers.
In keeping with the goal of bringing serious scholarship to a wide
audience, The Independent Review strives for academic rigor written in
lively, jargon-free prose.
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Inroads
Description: "Inroads is a journal dedicated to making inroads into the intellectual solitudes that divide this country. It provides a forum in which Canadians with different viewpoints contribute to finding practical solutions to political, economic and social problems. The writing is lively and engaging, the content well-researched but not stuffily academic, opinionated and engaging but not dogmatic, and the design innovative and attractive. Because it is interested in policy outcomes and not intentions, Inroads respects no sacred cows."
Journal of Libertarian Studies
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
Publisher: Kluwer
Description: The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty publishes original contributions, both
theoretical and empirical, dealing with the analysis of risk-bearing behavior and decision
making under uncertainty. An important aim of the journal is the encouragement of
interdisciplinary communication and interaction between researchers in the areas of risk
and uncertainty. The level of scientific sophistication of the papers is high, but they
are accompanied by an introductory discussion setting out the nature of the work and the
implications of the findings in a manner that makes them accessible to workers in other
disciplines. The papers published in the journal are mainly drawn from the areas of
decision theory, economics of uncertainty, risk and public policy, experimental economics,
and psychological models of choice.
Philosophy and Public Affairs
Publisher: Blackwells
Description: Philosophy and Public Affairs is founded in the belief that a philosophical
examination of public issues can contribute to their clarification. It contains
philosophical discussion of substantive legal, social, and political problems, as well as
discussions of the more abstract questions to which these discussions give rise. Philosophy
and Public Affairs is designed to fill the need for a periodical in which
philosophers with different viewpoints and philosophically inclined writers from various
disciplines - including law, political science, economics, and sociology - can bring their
distinctive methods to bear on problems that concern everyone.
Politics, Philosophy, and Economics
Publisher: Sage Publications
Description: "Politics, Philosophy and Economics is a long-awaited and unique new forum for the interchange of methods and concepts among political scientists, philosophers and economists interested in the analysis and evaluation of political and economic institutions and practices."
Public Affairs Quarterly
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Description: Public Affairs Quarterly provides an impartial forum for the philosophical study
of public policy issues. The journal features articles that bring philosophical depth and
sophistication to current topics in social and political philosophy and that focus on the
ethical and justificatory aspects of public policy issues. Some topics addressed include
social, economic, and distributive justice; environmental problems; the social and
political status of women, senior citizens, and minorities; abortion and euthanasia;
patriotism; criminal justice; and ethical issues in medicine, business, and the
professions.
Quality and Quantity
Publisher: Kluwer
Description: Quality and Quantity is a journal that constitutes a point of reference for all
European and non-European scholars willing to discuss instruments of methodology for more
rigorous scientific results in the social sciences. The journal publishes papers on causal
analysis, models of classification, methods for constructing typologies, graph theory
applications, mathematical models applied to social mobility, models of choice behavior,
mathematical models of voting behavior, discussions on the general logic of empirical
research, analysis of the validity and verification of social laws, and similar topics.
Essentially, Quality and Quantity is an interdisciplinary journal which
systematically correlates disciplines such as mathematics and statistics with those of the
social sciences, particularly sociology, economics and social psychology. The ultimate aim
of the journal is to widen the discussion of the most interesting contributions to
methodology to scholars of different nations, the objective being the scientific
development of social research. The journal therefore avoids accepting papers which have
no applicative potential.
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Description: "The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics promotes the development and extension of Austrian economics, and encourages the analysis of contemporary issues in the mainstream of economics from an Austrian perspective."
Rationality and Society
Publisher: Sage Publications
Description: Rationality and Society is an international journal focusing on the latest social
research and theory using rational choice as its foundation. The journal publishes
scholarly articles that further this research and theory, but its pages are also open to
work that challenges this theoretical direction. Rationality and Society contains pure
theory, as well as qualitative and quantitative research.
Reason
Description: Reason is a monthly magazine of "free minds and free markets," examines
politics, culture, and ideas from a dynamic libertarian perspective.
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Reason Papers: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
Description: "Reason Papers is a peer-reviewed, blind-reviewed journal appearing annually. It features book reviews and review essays along with full-length articles. Not strictly limited to philosophy, we publish work by economists, legal scholars, political scientists, and others, provided the content is normative in the philosophical sense. In addition to articles on moral, political, legal, and social/cultural philosophy, we will also run essays on aesthetics. While we are a friendly haven for classical-liberal/libertarian/objectivist thought, we have no ideological litmus tests."
Social Choice and Welfare
Publisher: Springer
Description: Social Choice and Welfare publishes original research, survey papers and book
reviews on the ethical and positive aspects of welfare economics and collective choice
theory. The appropriate topics comprise social choice and voting theory (normative,
positive and strategic sides) as well as all aspects of welfare theory (Pareto optimality;
welfare criteria; fairness, justice, and equity; externalities; public goods; optimal
taxation; incentives in public decision making; cost-benefit analysis; etc.). Articles on
choice and order theory may also be published if their results can be applied to these
topics. Papers both verbal and formal in style are being solicited.
Social Philosophy and Policy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Description: Social Philosophy and Policy is an interdisciplinary journal with an emphasis on
the philosophical underpinnings of enduring social policy debates. The issues are thematic
in format, examining a specific area of concern with contributions from scholars in
philosophy, economics, political science and law. While not primarily a journal of policy
prescriptions, articles typically connect theory with practice.
Theory and Decision
Publisher: Kluwer
Description: Theory and Decision is an international journal for methods and models in the
social and decision sciences. The purpose of the journal is to let the engineering of
decision making (i.e. of intelligence, choice, sorting out, ranking, uncertainty and
conflict resolution) gradually emerge. Special attention is paid to complex or
ill-structured situations. Mathematical or other formalised treatments are favoured, if
they provide a correct model of the situation under study.
Utilitas
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Description: Utilitas is a pioneering interdisciplinary journal of moral and political
philosophy, economic theory, jurisprudence, and intellectual history. It welcomes
articles, discussions, debates, and reviews on contemporary themes in these disciplines
where utilitarianism has made a particular contribution and on all aspects of the
development of utilitarian thought (including that of its opponents). The journal is
supported by the International Society for Utilitarian Studies (ISUS), which sponsors
major conferences, seminars and other meetings, and makes special offers on books at
advantageous rates to members. Individual subscribers to the journal automatically become
members of the Society. Other features of the journal include the ongoing Bentham and Mill
bibliographies and a number of special issues or parts of issues on particular themes and
individuals.
