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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:46:16 -0000
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Subject: Call for contributors for the Readers Guide to the Social Scienc es
There was some very helpful discussion earlier on the entry I wrote for this
Guide on 'Unemployment statistics'.
There are about 65 entries still unassigned as listed in the message below.
These include a number of topics which may not be far from the interests of
members of this list, including 'Unemployment theories'!
Anyone interested in taking up any of these entries. The crucial thing is
to be able to identify 8-10 key items relevant to an entry. I don't quite
have the confidence to do that for 'Unemployment theories' for example.
But maybe someone on the list who is teaching in this area could do this?
Maybe we could draw up a list cooperatively? What are the key theories for
example? My list of labels would go: classical, Keynesian, monetarist,
natural rate, underclass.
Would others be happly with this list of labels? A few obvious names are
associated with these labels, but I suppose it would require some special
knowledge of the theoretical standpoint to identify the key texts.
Ray Thomas, Social Sciences, Open University
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: 01908-679081 Fax: 01908-550401
Post: 35 Passmore, Milton Keynes MK6 3DY
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Call for Contributors:
The Reader's Guide to Social Sciences was commissioned in March 1998 as
a two- volume reference book comprising 1,400 entries on key topics in
the social sciences. We are now at the stage where the bulk of the book
is in copy editing, and we urgently need contributors to write the last
remaining entries listed below.
Each 1,000 word entry is essentially a literature review. It should
list the key 8-10 texts on a topic, and discuss the quality, emphasis,
range and depth of coverage in each. Entries should concentrate on
reviewing books, key journal articles, collections of articles in book
form, and individual essays in collections.
If you are interested in writing any of the unassigned entries, please
contact Carol Jones, the project commissioning editor, at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] She will make the formal assignment,
and provide you with a contributor guide that contains a sample entry.
Entries will be assigned on a first-come first-served basis, and
deadlines are negotiable but will necessarily be quite tight at this
late stage in the project. Owing to the huge inflow of emails that these
calls generate, you may not receive a reply straight away - please be
assured that Carol will reply to offers strictly in the order in which
they arrive, and you should hear from us within a week.
I hope that you will be able to take part in what has been a
well-received and exciting project so far.
With many thanks,
Professor Jonathan Michie, (Project Editor)
Birkbeck College,
University of London
Accounting
Accounting, event
Accounting, policies
Africa, Northern, Economy and economic record
Agricultural economics/policy
Bargaining
Capacity
Club Goods
Comparative advantage
Demand and supply
Empiricism
Exchange rates
Expectations
Exports/export led growth
Firm, theory of
French economy and economic record
General equilibrium theory
German economy and economic record
Government failure
History of economic thought
Individualism
Inflation
Insurance (econ)
International finance
International Trade
Investment
Keynesian economics
Labour party governments' economic record
Markets
Materialism
Mathematisation of economics
Middle Eastern economies
Monetarism
Money and credit
Neoclassical-Keynesian synthesis
Networks, of firms
OPEC
Post Keynesian economics
Profit maximization
Protectionism
Public sector
Quantity theory of money
Real business cycles
Realism
Regulation theory
Research and Development
Savings
Scandinavian economy and economic record
Short termism
Social corporatism
South Asian economies
Supply-side economics
Taxation
Trade unions
Unemployment theories
US Relative economic performance
Value
Wealth
Welfare economics
Welfare state
Work
Major Entry:
The social sciences - scope, characteristics, and debates (10,000 words)
with best wishes,
Carol Jones
Commissioning Editor
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
310 Regent Street
London
W1R 5AJ
tel. +44 (0)171 636 6627
fax. +44 (0)171 636 6982
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
