Aims and scope

This radical interdisciplinary journal of theory and politics celebrated its 50th Anniversary volume in 2021, and continues to be one of the most exciting and influential resources in the social sciences worldwide.

As one of the leading scholarly refereed journals in its field, Economy and Society aims to promote new debates and currents of social thought. It seeks to provide a forum to explore the social sciences in the broadest interdisciplinary sense, and welcomes innovative articles from sociologists and anthropologists, political scientists, geographers, legal theorists, philosophers, economists, and scholars who work across and between disciplines.

In regular issues, and through thematic special issues and special sections, Economy and Society covers economic relations and governance, progressive politics, the life sciences and more, and publishes new work on current issues from across Europe and the Americas, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific Rim.

Peer Review Policy:

All articles published in this journal have undergone internal Editorial Board scrutiny as well as anonymous peer review. Reviews are solicited under a double-anonymized system of review, and Editorial Board members are actively involved in the reviewing and decision-making process, both reading papers sent for review and considering the referees’ reports received. Editorial Board meetings are held throughout the year at which Board members discuss the papers and referees’ reports in detail, before coming to a decision on each submission. Proposals for special issues and special sections are also received and considered by the Editorial Board, and the Board will appoint one of its members to oversee the development of a special issue/section. Judgements communicated to authors are the decision of the Editorial Board, and combine feedback from referee reports, Board Members and the Managing Editor.

Publications appear in the Latest Articles section of the journal’s website, ahead of print in a specific issue of the journal.