Public Choice
| Public Choice
|
|
|---|---|
| description | Scientific journal of economics |
| Area of Expertise | New political economy / social choice theory |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Springer Science + Business Media (Germany) |
| First edition | 1966 |
| Frequency of publication | half-yearly |
| Editor-in-chief | William F. Shughart |
| Web link | springer.com |
| Article archive | link.springer.com |
| ISSN (print) | 0048-5829 |
| ISSN (online) | 1573-7101 |
Public Choice is a scientific journal on economic topics, especially new political economy and social choice theory . It is published by Springer Science + Business Media and appears quarterly. It was founded in 1966 by Gordon Tullock . The journal locates itself at the interface between economics and political science.
editorial staff
The editors of the Public Choice is by William F. Shughart out. He is supported by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard , Peter T. Leeson and Georg S. Vanberg as associate editors and Christopher J. Coyne as editor for book reviews. There is also an editorial board to which numerous economists and political scientists belong.
Well-known former members of the editorial team besides the founder Gordon Tullock were Kenneth J. Arrow , Gary Becker , Peter Bernholz , Duncan Black , James M. Buchanan , Albert Breton , Anthony Downs , Richard McKelvey , William C. Mitchell , William A. Niskanen , Mancur Olson , Vincent Ostrom , Alan T. Peacock , William H. Riker , Amartya Sen , George J. Stigler, and Melvin Hinich .
reception
A study by the French economists Pierre-Phillippe Combes and Laurent Linnemer ranks the journal in the third-best category A with 59th place out of 600 economic journals.
According to its own information, the journal had an impact factor of 0.835 in 2014 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Public Choice (Editorial Board). springer.com, accessed November 4, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Public Choice. springer.com, accessed November 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Combes, Pierre-Philippe and Laurent Linnemer, Inferring Missing Citations: A Quantitative Multi-Criteria Ranking of all Journals in Economics . In: GREQAM Document de Travail . No. 2010-28 , 2010, pp. 26–30 (English, halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF]).