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Junior Fellowship Award Scheme 2010, applications by May 7 - more...
Young Economist Essay Competition deadline for application 17 May 2010 - more...
2009 RES Prize for the best non-solicited paper published
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RES Training Schools - Masterclass
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Media briefings for the latest issue of the Economic Journal now available - more...
Economic Journal articles now published online ahead of print - more...
Economic Journal New Submission Policy - send us your past reports - more
Publications
The standing of the Economic Journal is clearly rising. It ranked sixth among 42 leading economics journals in the article by Pieters and Baumgartner in the June 2002 Journal of Economic Literature (based on citations, deducting self-citations). The Features issues of the EJ have covered a wide range of major policy-related topics - forthcoming numbers include several topics related to developing countries: 'Foreign Aid', 'Trade Liberalization and Economic Performance in Developing Countries', and 'Competition, Corporate Governance and Selection in Emerging Markets'.
The Newsletter has introduced a new series of articles. Peter Howells, the Editor, has commissioned contributions from practitioners in the private and public sectors on the relevance to their work of particular aspects of economic research. This series joins the regular 'letters' from the US, France, Germany and now India. A substantial majority of the Society's members are based outside the UK, and many members are not academics. The Newsletter is an informative and lively means of communication across these boundaries.
The media have given considerable attention to the Annual Conference in recent years. This is in great part due to our media initiative. Romesh Vaitilingam provides user-friendly material to the press, with intensive coverage of Conference papers and regular press releases on Economic Journal articles. The Society's media initiative was highly praised and recommended as a model for other social sciences in the recent report of the Commission on the Social Sciences. The Society's Council, in supporting the media initiative so strongly, has reaffirmed our commitment to communicating the results of economic research in forms that are accessible to non-specialists. There is still a long way to go, however, to convince many critics that the combination of theory and empirical work at the heart of modern economics is not hopelessly abstract, that our models and analysis can both help to explain the data and serve as reliable tools for policy-making.
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