EDITORIAL NOTE
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9485.1972.tb00513.x |
| Date | 01 June 1972 |
| Published date | 01 June 1972 |
SCOTTISH JOURNAL
OF
POLITICAL
ECONOMY
June
1972
EDITORIAL NOTE
With this issue, we are introducing
an
innovation which we hope will provide
a useful service to readers. Each issue of the Journal, from now on, will con-
tain
a
BOOK
REVIEW section.
Our policy in the past has been to engage in reviewing only to
a
very
limited extent, and for the most part such contributions as we have included
have taken the form of invited review articles on
a
work
or
works which the
Editors have believed to be of particular importance
or
of
special interest
to Journal subscribers. The present innovation has something of the same
motivation, but instead of a sporadic coverage the Journal will now carry a
regular review section, which will, however, differ from the conventional
approach followed by most other economic journals.
To
avoid duplicating the review function of other journals, it is
our
intention
to
devote space in each issue to either one or two review articles on
a particular topic. Each review article will be based on
a
number of recent
publications bearing on that theme, and the reviewer will seek to relate the
books covered both to one another and to the general state of economic
understanding in that specialist field.
On
occasion, where
a
book seems to
us
to deserve particular attention, a review article may be commissioned on
that work alone, in much the same way as we have done in the past.
The choice
of
topics to
be
covered by review articles is best described by
the old-fashioned, but ever-applicable, caption of
‘
political economy
’.
The
emphasis will therefore be on areas
of
economics which have
a
direct rela-
tionship to policy questions, within which theoretical, analytical and more
purely applied work will all be included as eligible for review.
A
list of the
initial topics selected for coverage in future issues will perhaps serve to illus-
trate our intention
:
Management of the Economy (this issue)
Regional Economics
’
November
1972
Economics
of
Industry
I
Economics of the Public Sector
Labour Economics
Economics
of
Education
Economics of Welfare
scheduled for
1973
1
I
1
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