Homo Oeconomicus is an interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinarity

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 peer review

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ed academic journal

Academic journal

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 publishing studies in classical and neoclassical economics

Neoclassical economics

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, public choice

Public choice theory

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 and social choice theory

Social choice theory

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, law and economics

Law and economics

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, and philosophy of economics

Philosophy of economics

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It has published articles from fields beyond economics, and was once listed as a "Heterodox journal

Heterodox economics

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".

History

The journal was founded in 1983 as an occasional series concerned with aspects of the Homo economicus

Homo economicus

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 concept (homo oeconomicus). Manfred J. Holler (Professor at the Institute of SocioEconomics, University of Hamburg

University of Hamburg

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) is its founding editor.

It began life as a German language

German language

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 publication, but it has published all articles in English

English language

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 since 1998. Holler has said that the mixture of German and English articles had deterred some subscribers, and that subscriptions picked up after the magazine stopped accepting German language submissions.

External links

• Homo Oeconomicus Past Issues - Homo Oeconomicus is an Open access journal
  Open access journal
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   and articles from Volume 21 (2004) onwards are freely downloadable here.
• EconPapers has article abstracts back to volume 12 (1995)