Papers can be of any length, though the typical length will be about 10,000 words. Longer papers explaining, in a non-technical manner, theoretical developments in economics and their application to philosophy and politics, are especially welcome. Two-part papers will also be considered. PPE encourages authors to place formal or technical analyses in appendices, as far as is possible. Papers should be in English and should not have been published already, nor be currently under consideration elsewhere. All papers are refereed anonymously. Papers should come with the following information in a separate file:
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Citations:
Book
First mention: Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan, The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1985), p. 50.
Second and subsequent mentions if next note: Ibid., p.76.
Second and subsequent mentions if not next note: Brennan and Buchanan, The Reason of Rules, p. 67.
Article in journal
Amartya Sen, ‘On Weights and Measures: Informational Constraints in Social Welfare Analysis’, Econometrica 45 (1977): 1540-1571, p. 1562.
Second and subsequent mentions if next note: Ibid., p.1541.
Second and subsequent mentions if not next note: Sen, ‘On Weights and Measures’, p. 1545.
Essay in Edited Book
Russell Hardin, ‘Social Capital’, in Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about
Economics and Political Science, edited by James Alt, Margaret Levi, and Elinor Ostrom (New York: Russell SAGE Foundation, 1999): 170-189, p. 178.
Book in Collected Works
J. S. Mill, On Liberty, in Collected Works of J.S. Mill, edited by J.M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977), XVIII: p. 220.
Second and subsequent mentions if not next note: Mill, On Liberty, p. 222.
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