Call for papers / Appels à contribution

 

 

Regularly, Œconomia publishes call for papers on specific themes. Articles selected after usual peer-review will be published together within a thematic section of the journal. Articles can be written in English or in French / Œconomia publie régulièrement des appels à contribution sur des sujets choisis. Les textes retenus, après un processus habituel de revue par des pairs, seront publiés dans une section thématique de la revue. Les articles soumis peuvent être en anglais ou en français.

 

Economics and literature: beyond praise and disparagement

 

Deadline for submission: November 1st , 2012

Planned publication of the issue: 2013

 

Editor: Estrella Trincado Aznar, Jérôme Lallement

 

Since the nascent of political economy in 17th century, and even before, literature has been both a place for broadcasting and challenging economic ideas through idealizing fables and pastiches. In turn, economists could borrow from literature some ways to present their own ideas or to criticize alternative doctrines. The purpose of this special issue is to reflect on the transformations of the frontiers between economics and literature: to investigate how literature can reflect economic ideas and arguments and to see how economics and economists have dealt with literary presentations of economic ideas.    [Read More]

 

Economic Imperialism.

 

Deadline for submission: June 15th, 2012

Planned publication of the issue: 2013

 

Editor: Pedro Teixeira and Annie L. Cot

Coordinating committee: Pedro Teixeira, Annie L. Cot, John Davis, Jean-Sébastien Lenfant

 

 

The last decades have seen the growing confidence of economists to tackle a number of socio-economic topics with standard economic tools. This project has been significantly fostered by Gary Becker and has become a distinguishing feature of the Chicago School. The initial strong resistance, within and outside economics, has been giving way to a growing acceptance as a result of changes in other social sciences, namely through the increasing pervasiveness of rational choice theory in fields such as sociology, political science or demography.   [Read More]