Citation
Editorial Team, I. (2012), "The scope of the journal", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 39 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijse.2012.00639faa.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
The scope of the journal
Article Type: Editorial From: International Journal of Social Economics, Volume 39, Issue 6
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.
Tribute to Leslie Armour
From January 2012 the IJSE has been edited by Professor James Connelly and Dr Colin Tyler, both of the University of Hull, UK. We would like to pay tribute to the work of Leslie Armour as its editor since 2005. Leslie is a philosopher with a background in economic and business journalism and a wide knowledge and understanding of economics and history. He was therefore an ideal editor for the IJSE. Under his editorship the journal has carved out a distinctive place within the academic world, publishing papers which focussed in particular on the social dimensions of economic activity. To that end he encouraged papers which were ethically, socially, and politically informed and which sought to show the human impact of economic activity. We would like to thank Leslie for his inspiration and to assure him and our readers that we will continue to produce a journal worthy to continue the work he began.
A future issue of the IJSE will be dedicated to Leslie’s work on social economics.
Many thanks
IJSE Editorial Team