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AIMS AND SCOPE

Launched in 1993 by Riccardo Faucci as the new international series of Quaderni di Storia dell’Economia Politica, History of Economic Ideas promotes the collaboration between scholars (historians, economists, social and political scientists, jurists) who share a historical approach to the development and diffusion of economic thought along its analytical, instutitional, legal and socio-political dimensions.

As the original Aims and Scope of the journal recited, History of Economic Ideas “rejects the dichotomy between ‘analysis’ and ‘culture’: both aspects are of equal importance for a wider understanding of the subject. In a period where paradigms that once seemed unshakeable are being challenged, a multidisciplinary analysis of the historical development of economics might contribute to shedding light on the issues at the root of current debates”. Faithful to those beliefs, our international editorial board welcomes contributions on all aspects of the history of economics and economic policy and of their relationships with past legal, institutional, political and social thought and events.

Besides essays and surveys, the journal hosts debates and symposia and publishes reviews of new books on the history of economic thought and related subjects.

History of Economic Ideas is double-blind peer reviewed. It is indexed and abstracted in Scopus (Elsevier), JSTOR, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), EconLit, EigenFactor Journal Ranking, and RePEc - EconPapers. The eContent is Archived with Clockss and Portico.

NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

  1. Articles should be submitted via HEI’s website on Scholastica.
    • Before submitting their article, authors should e-mail its title, abstract and word length to the Editor at historyeconomicideas@gmail.com . This in order to verify whether the article fits the journal’s Aims and Scope as above specified. Authors are also required to provide the Editor with an e-mail address to be used for all communications about their submission.
    • Authors should wait for the Editor’s confirmation before uploading their article on Scholastica. Such confirmation does not entail a commitment to eventual acceptance.
    • Following confirmation, authors will be allowed to submit their paper using the previously communicated e-mail address. It will not be possible to use any other e-mail. Uploaded articles will be assigned to an editor-in-charge of the submission who will decide whether to proceed with double-blind refereeing.
    • When submittiming an article, authors must declare any external funding and must guarantee that the article is an original piece of research which is not under evaluation elsewhere.
    • For further information about the submission process, refer to this website or write to historyeconomicideas@gmail.com .
  2. Papers should be submitted anonymously, with a separate cover indicating the authors’ name, affiliation and e-mail address. It is recommended to upload submissions in **both .docx and .pdf **.
    For more information about submitting an article through Scholastica and guaranteeing its anonymity, see here: https://help.scholasticahq.com/article/72-author-guide#submit-your-manuscript
  3. Articles should be written in standard English and should not normally exceed 12,000 words, including footnotes and references. An abstract of about 100 words is also required.
  4. Following acceptance for publication, authors will be required to carefully check the conformity of their manuscripts to our editorial guidelines. In particular, the following requirements should be respected:
    • Non-English words should appear in italics.
      *Due attention should be paid to the use of single or double quotation marks. The former are to be used when highlighting a word or expression (e.g., the so-called ‘civilized’ society), the latter only when reporting another author’s word or expression (e.g. Smith’s «impartial spectator»).
    • Full quotations should be between «». If their length exceeds 40 words they should be displayed as separate from the main text. Please refer to one of our issues to see how this should be done.
  5. References should be listed at the end of the paper as follows (author’s surname in small blocks):
    • WEINTRAUB E. R. 1991, Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge UP.
    • SHIONOYA Y. (ed.) 2001, The German Historical School, London and New York, Routledge.
    • Schumpeter J. A. 1931, «The present world depression: a tentative diagnosis», American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), 21, 1, 179-182.
    • SAMUELS W. J. 1997, «The case for methodological pluralism», in A. SALANTI and E. SCREPANTI (eds) 1997, Pluralism in Economics, Cheltenham (UK) and Brookfield (US), Edward Elgar, 67-79. [Or: in SALANTI and SCREPANTI (eds) 1997, 67-79 if the volume is listed separately in the references].
  6. References in text and footnotes should normally be written as:
    • WEINTRAUB 1991, 15-18.
    • The bracketed form Weintraub (1991, 15-18) should be used when the reference is part of a sentence.
    • Avoid the use of p. or pp.
  7. When quoting from, or making reference to, reprinted or translated material, the main reference should always cite the edition from which the quotation is taken, while the year of the original edition should be put between square brackets. For example:
    • in text: Keynes 1973 [1936], 126
    • in footnotes (author’s surname in small blocks): KEYNES 1973 [1936], 126
    • in the references (author’s surname in small blocks):
      • KEYNES J. M. 1973 [1936], The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, London, Macmillan
      • SCHUMPETER J. A. 1961 [1912], The Theory of Economic Development, Cambridge (MA), Harvard UP; original edn. Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung, Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot.
  8. Papers failing to satisfy either the linguistic or the editorial requirements will be rejected without consideration. All other papers will be double-refereed.
  9. Headers of book reviews should comply with the following format (author’s first name and surname in small blocks): JOHN B. DAVIS, The Theory of the Individual in Economics, London and New York, Routledge, 2003, viii-216.