About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Œconomia – History / Methodology / Philosophy is a quarterly, bilingual (French/English) journal publishing articles, surveys and a significant book review section. From time to time, Œconomia intends to publish thematic symposia gathering articles on a major theme.
The aims and scope of the journal is to build a place of debates and exchanges between historians of economic thought and specialists of economic methodology and economic philosophy. It welcomes as well contributions by theoretical and applied economists on their own practice. With this aim in mind, Œconomia intends to publish articles at the frontiers between these various domains, renewing thus our knowledge and understanding of authors and schools of thought, of tools of analysis, institutions and economic policies. By casting a methodological and historical perspective on a wide range of subjects, Œconomia aims at stimulating the debates and reflections on recent evolutions of political economy and economic theory.
The historian of economic thought is likely to enrich his/her research through connections with economic history, science studies or methodology. The diversification of methods, the growing complexity of models and systems of assumptions should open the way to a reflection where philosophy and methodology join forces to help us reflect on the relationships between economics and other social sciences. Transdisciplinary exchanges could thus continuously deepen the methods of economic philosophy and normative economics and help us revise the way we look at economic ethics, welfare economics and social justice.
Needless to say that Œconomia – History / Methodology / Philosophy subscribes to no particular school of thought. The associate editors and the members of the Editorial board are drawn from a wide variety of countries and are representative a large spectrum of research interests.
Peer Review Process
Each article submitted to Œconomia is assessed by a the pool of associate editors, to make sure that it fits with the editorial policy of the journal and that it abides by the usual criteria of quality and respect of author's guidelines.
Submissions are then under the responsibility of an editor who is in charge of finding referees (at least two referees) and following the editorial process until a decision has been reached (accept or reject).
The referee process is double blind.
Whenever possible, submissions in French are expertized by at least one non-French referee.
Publication Frequency
Œconomia is a quarterly journal. It publishes a new issue in March, June, September and December of each year.
