Forum for Social Economics

The Forum for Social Economics, founded in 1971, is a high-quality peer-reviewed (double anonymized), international academic journal sponsored by the Association for Social Economics (ASE). It is committed to the development of social economics as a values-based, complex and policy-oriented science in the service of the common good.

The Forum Editors invite the submission of stimulating, original and clearly-written academic research papers on:

a) The factual features of the socioeconomic problems of our age - such as the state of communities, economic and financial crises, institutional and technological change, poverty/inequality, terrorism, conflict and climate change as well as gender, class and ethnic issues - and how they impact on a reasonable understanding of the world we live in;
b) Alternative perspectives on indicators of socioeconomic performance. These include approaches that endogenize social facts, well-being, quality of life, standard living, provisioning, ecological sustainability, trust, institutional functioning, happiness and/or human development.
c) Policy issues, with an emphasis on how collective agents - governments, public agencies, unions and other private groups and organizations - can and do affect coordination, cooperation, performance, justice, equity and trust.