Journal of Institutional Economics (JOIE)

Call for Papers
The first issue of the Journal of Institutional Economics (JOIE) will appear in 2005. The journal will be published by Cambridge University Press (www.cup.cam.ac.uk), and be available in hardcopy and on line.

This is the first call for papers for this new journal. The editors and associates of JOIE wish it to become a leading and prestigious journal in the field. In addition, JOIE aims to provide a refereeing process that is both rapid and scientifically rigorous. We would welcome your involvement in this venture. See the 'Notes for Contributors' below.

Aims and Scope
JOIE will be devoted to the study of the nature, role and evolution of institutions in the economy, including firms, states, markets, money, households and other vital institutions and organizations. It will welcome contributions by all schools of thought that can contribute to our understanding of the features, development and functions of real world economic institutions and organizations.

JOIE will be dedicated to the development of innovative research within this broad conception of institutional economics. It will encompass research in both the 'original' and 'new' traditions of institutional economics, from Gustav Schmoller, Thorstein Veblen, John R. Commons, Wesley Mitchell and Gunnar Myrdal, to Ronald Coase, Oliver Williamson, Douglass North and many others.

JOIE will promote theoretical and empirical research that enhances our understanding of the nature, origin, role and evolution of socio-economic institutions. Ideas from many disciplines, such as anthropology, biology, geography, history, politics, psychology, philosophy, social theory and sociology, as well as economics itself, are important for this endeavour.

Notes for Contributors
All articles must be in English. They may be submitted in electronic format only. MSWord, WordPerfect and pdf files are acceptable.

There must be no indication of the personal identity or institution of any author of the article within the article itself, or in the 'properties' of the electronic file. Normally, articles (including footnotes and references) must be no longer than 9,000 words. In special cases, such as an extended review article, this limit may be extended to 12,000 words.

Papers with some formal content will be considered if it is fully explained for a general readership, the mathematics is consigned as much as possible to appendices, the assumptions have sufficient grounding in reality, and the paper enhances our understanding of past, present, or feasible socio-economic institutions. JOIE is not interested in the advancement of formal or econometric technique for their own sake.

The front page of the electronic file of the article should include the following information: the title; an abstract of the article of up to 150 words; the Journal of Economic Literature classification codes for the article (consisting of a single letter followed by two numeric digits, see www.aeaweb.org/journal/jel_class_system.html ); and up to six key words or short phrases.

Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and the Harvard referencing system should be used.

Submissions should be accompanied, in the email text or in a separate file, with the following details: the name(s) of the author(s); the email address of the corresponding author; and the institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s).

Submission of a paper will be held to imply that it contains original unpublished work and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere.

Submission should be made by email and electronic attachment to the Editor-in-Chief at g.m.hodgson@herts.ac.uk

The JOIE Editors will preliminarily assess all papers. A paper will be rejected at this stage if it does not comply with the above guidelines, is evidently of insufficient academic quality or interest, or lies outside the scope of the journal. If a paper passes this preliminarily assessment, then it will be sent out to referees. The five Editors will make the final decision, taking account of the referee's reports.

If the article is accepted, the author will be ask to comply with the format and house style of JOIE, to be announced later.

Editors of JOIE
Geoffrey M Hodgson (Editor-in-Chief), University of Hertfordshire, UK
Elias Khalil, Vassar College, USA
Richard Langlois, University of Connecticut, USA
Bart Nooteboom, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Ugo Pagano, University of Sienna, Italy

JOIE Trustees
Ha-Joon Chang
Gráinne Collins
Robert Delorme
Nancy Folbre
John Groenewegen
Stavros Ioannides
Albert Jolink
Thorbjørn Knudsen
Nathalie Lazaric
Francisco Louça
Ioanna P. Minoglou
Julie A. Nelson
Klaus Nielsen
Pier Paolo Saviotti
Esther-Mirjam Sent

JOIE International Advisory Board
Howard Aldrich (University of North Carolina)
Ash Amin (Durham University)
Masahiko Aoki (Stanford University)
Margaret Archer (University of Warwick)
W. Brian Arthur (Santa Fe Institute)
Mark Blaug (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Paul Dale Bush (California State University)
John Cantwell (Rutgers University and Reading University)
Antonio Damasio (University of Iowa)
Marcello De Cecco (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Victoria Chick (Imperial College London)
Paul DiMaggio (Princeton University)
Ronald Dore (London School of Economics)
Giovanni Dosi (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)
Sheila Dow (Stirling University)
Massimo Egidi (University of Trento)
Nicolai Foss (Copenhagen Business School)
John Foster (University of Queensland)
Herbert Gintis (University of Massachusetts)
Mark Granovetter (Stanford University)
Avner Greif (Stanford University)
Bruce Kogut (INSEAD)
Janos Kornai (Harvard University)
Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge)
Brian Loasby (University of Stirling)
Uskali Mäki (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Luigi Marengo (University of Teramo)
Claude Ménard (University of Paris I)
J. Stanley Metcalfe (University of Manchester)
Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)
Douglass North (Nobel Laureate; University of Washington, St. Louis)
Elinor Ostrom (Indiana University)
Mark Perlman (University of Pittsburg)
Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria)
Warren Samuels (Michigan State University)
Thomas Schelling (University of Maryland)
Ekkehart Schlicht (University of Munich)
John Searle (University of California at Berkeley)
Luc Soete (University of Maastricht)
Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia)
Marc Tool (California State University)
Viktor Vanberg (University of Freiburg)
Richard Whitley (University of Manchester)
H. Peyton Young (Johns Hopkins University).

July 21, 2004.