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Schmollers Jahrbuch: Journal of Contextual Economics is a forum for scholarly research that focusses on economic thought, behavior or processes set in social or physical context. Context is understood broadly as anything shaping or constraining economic thought, behavior or processes and includes such things as the ethical norms, culture, intellectual/scientific heritage or any other anthropological or sociological features of social groups or historical subjects, the legal order and institutions that have shaped and sustained economies and societies, and the physical environment, resources, and ecology upon which everything depends. In keeping with the journal's original intention, the editors are especially interested in stimulating a discussion between different social science disciplines to shed light on real economic and social problems. Contributions may work in any methodology so long as they embed their analyses in context.

Central themes the journal seeks to explore include:

•  Economic growth, quality of life, and sustainability
•  Institutions and institutional change
•  Economic ethics and social policy
•  The interaction between economic and social/physical systems
•  Long-term human development
•  Methodology/history of economics

Style Guide

The style for all contributions to Schmollers Jahrbuch must conform with the author-date parenthetical reference system outlined in the Chicago Manual of Style, 16^th edition, Chapter 15. This is also outlined in Turabian, A Manual for Writers, 7^th edition, Chapters 18-19 and on the Chicago Style website: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html.

English: If you are not a native English speaker, please have your manuscript proofread carefully by one. This is crucial for the quality of both your work and our journal. Even seemingly simple cases of incorrect usage (for example, wrong prepositions) can lead to serious misunderstandings and a general lack of clarity of your manuscript's main points. Either US or UK English spelling and usage may be deployed, but please be consistent.

a) First page:

Please include the title of your manuscript on the first page (without the author's name).

Please also include an abstract (100 words or less) and the JEL Classification Codes.

b) Headings, Subheadings, Titles of Tables, and Figures:

All words should be capitalized except "a", "an", and, "the", and prepositions. Capitalize the word following a colon in a title.

c) Tables and Figures:

Please indicate where they should appear in the text (e.g., "Table 1 about here").

d) References:

aa)Please follow the Chicago author-date parenthetical reference system.

bb)Please refrain from using footnotes except to explain or elaborate a specific point in the text. Use such footnotes sparingly: "1. For a fuller elaboration of this point, see Sen and Nussbaum (1993)."

 cc) References in the text:

i. Please cite the last name of the author, the date of the publication, and the page number(s) in parentheses, for example: (Kohlberg and Mertens 1986, 1027).

ii. Use semicolons to separate citations in a single parenthetical reference: "… is driven by pervasive and growing income inequality (Stiglitz 2012; Picketty 2014)."

iii. To emphasize within the text, please use italics. Please write names in the standard font, not with any special format: "Pomeranz revealed that the primary constraint was ecological, not culturalor institutional."

iv. All titles of books or journals should also be italicized: "Gustav Schmoller argued in his Grundriss (1900-1904) that …".  Likewise any non-English word or phrases should be italicized: "Sébastien de Vauban first used the phrase l'organisation du travail in...".

v. Do not give references to pages within the manuscript text itself.

e) Works Cited:

On a separate page at the end of the manuscript, please list all the works cited (references) in a "Works Cited" reference list organized alphabetically according to the last name of the author. Publications from the same author should be listed in order of publication date, the most recent listed last. "Works Cited" should follow the format: Last name, first initial, publication date, title and, in addition for

Books: place of publication and publisher. Example: Keynes, J.M. 1936. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. London: Macmillan.

Journal articles: journal title, volume number, colon, first page - last page. Example: Coase, R. 1972. Durability and Monopoly, Journal of Law and Economics 15: 143-149.

Collections of articles in a book: title of the collection of articles, volume number, editors name, first page - last page, place of publication, and publisher. Example: Radner, F. 1982. Equilibrium under Uncertainty. In Handbook of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 11, ed. K. J. Arrow and M. D. Intrilligator, 924-1006. Amsterdam, New York and Oxford: Elsevier.

f) Punctuation:

Commas must follow Latin abbreviations (i.e., e.g., ibid.,) and the word "and" in lists (serial comma). Quotations should be given with double inverted commas (e.g., … he said that "in the long run …"). Quotations within quotations should be identified with singe inverted commas (e.g., He wrote that "ceteris paribus is the 'Ricardian vice'", using a term Schumpeter had once used.)

Liability note: The editors do not accept any liability for submitted papers. Submission of a paper is understood as an offer to transfer the exclusive right of publication to the editor and publisher. Acceptance can be explicit, or implicit through the publication of the manuscript. The transferred right of publication includes the right to process data related to the manuscript and to produce further duplications for commercial purposes. The authors retain the right to grant permission for publication elsewhere after a minimum of one year. Every reprint must contain a reference to the original publication in Schmollers Jahrbuch. All royalties for reprints belong to the author.