Editorial objective
International Journal of Social Economics aims to provide its readers with a unique forum for the exchange and sharing of information in social economics. Social economics focuses on needs, rather than wants, and the wellbeing of individuals in community rather than the individual conceived as an isolated atom. It accepts the possibility of a common good in which communities are more than merely aggregates of individual preferences. The focus of the journal is the impact of economic activity on individuals in community, and its wider social meanings and consequences. The IJSE exists to explore the nature and ethical implications of social-economic problems, as these are analysed by geographers, historians, philosophers, political economists, political scientists, social and political theorists, sociologists, and theologians interested in social problems, as well as business academics.
Editorial criteria
We welcome articles written by scholars on the following topics and areas:
- Social economy
- Environment
- Ethics and economics
- Needs
- Development
For a full list of categories see below.
Topicality
Increasing economic interaction, allied to the social and political changes evident in many parts of the world, has created a need for more sophisticated understanding of the social, political and cultural influences which govern our societies. The journal, with its philosophical discussions of research findings, combined with commentary on international developments in social economics, makes a genuinely valuable contribution to current understanding of the subject and the growth of new ideas.
Key benefits
International Journal of Social Economics is an invaluable resource for keeping academics and practitioners abreast of new trends, theories and developments.
Key journal audiences
- Academics and students in social economics, political economy, politics, philosophy, geography, sociology, anthropology, area studies and cognate areas.
- University and college libraries
- Think tanks, policy networks and associated groups.
Suggested list of Categories
- Ageing
- Agricultural economics
- Alienation
- Capitalism, theories of
- Child labour
- Chinese philosophy
- Citizenship
- Common good
- Communitarianism
- Community
- Comparative advantage
- Competition
- Cooperatives
- Corruption
- Cosmopolitanism
- Cost benefit analysis
- Crime
- Criminology
- Critical theory
- Culture
- Democracy
- Demography
- Deontology
- Deprivation
- Developing countries
- Development
- Disability
- Disadvantage
- Distributive justice
- Drugs
- Economic philosophy/theory
- Economics of war and conflict
- Education
- Efficiency
- Empire
- Employment
- Enterprise
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental economics
- Environmental ethics
- Environmental justice
- Family
- Famine
- Feminism
- Freedom
- Gender
- Global justice
- Global political economy
- Governance
- Government
- Health care
- Health policy
- History of political economic thought
- History of political thought
- Human Capabilities
- Human development
- Imperialism
- Income distribution
- Indian philosophy
- Institutions and institutional analysis
- Interest and pressure groups
- Islamic banking/finance
- Jurisprudence
- Justice
- Labour
- Legal institutions
- Legal theory
- Leisure
- Liberalism
- Liberty
- Local economies
- Malnutrition
- Management
- Marxism
- Microcredit
- Migration/Immigration
- Money
- Multiculturalism
- Needs
- Neoliberalism
- New Right
- NGOs
- Nutrition
- Philosophical idealism
- Philosophy of economics
- Political economics
- Political philosophy/theory
- Politics of identity and difference
- Post-Imperialism
- Postmodernism
- Poststructuralism
- Poverty
- Power
- Productivity
- Progressivism
- Property rights
- Public choice
- Public goods
- Radical economics
- Rational choice
- Refugees/asylum seekers
- Religion
- Republicanism
- Rights
- Security
- Self, the
- Self-employment
- Social capital
- Social choice
- Social economy
- Social evolution
- Social goods
- Social justice
- Social needs
- Social philosophy
- Social policy
- Social theory
- Social welfare
- Socialism
- Sustainability
- Sustainable development
- Transaction costs
- Utilitarianism
- Utility
- Virtue ethics
- Wages
- Wealth
- Welfare economics
- Welfare policy
- Well being
International Journal of Social Economics is indexed and abstracted in:
- Emerald Management Reviews
- SCOPUS
- Academic Search
- Applied Social Science Index & Abstracts
- Asian-Pacific Economic Literature
- Business Index
- Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities - Economics & Finance
- EconLit online and CD ROM
- ECONIS
- Geo Abstracts and GEOBASE
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences - Economics
- International Development
- International Labour Documentation
- ProQuest
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
- UNESCO-World List of Social Science Periodicals
- International Bibliography of Social Sciences
- World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstract
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