Review of Political Economy

Review of Political Economy
Title	Review of Political Economy
Discipline	Political economy
Language	English
Abbreviation	Rev. Political Econ.
Publisher	Routledge
Country	United Kingdom
History	1989–present
Frequency	Quarterly
Issn	0953-8259

Review of Political Economy is a peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on political economy scholarship and critical analysis of economic thought and policy. The journal publishes original research, historical studies, and theoretical work examining relationships among political institutions, economic actors, and social movements. It situates articles within debates connected to classical and contemporary traditions of political economy, drawing on interdisciplinary methods.

History

The journal was established in 1989 amid debates following the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, engaging with legacies of scholars associated with the classical tradition and responses to the rise of Neoliberalism and policies associated with administrations such as that of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Early editorial boards included scholars with links to institutions such as the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, and University of Oxford, and it has chronicled discussions related to events like the Great Recession and the European debt crisis. Over time the journal has published work addressing transitions in post-communist states such as Poland and Russia, and responses to multilateral institutions including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Editorial Scope and Aims

The journal aims to integrate traditions from figures like Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and Thorstein Veblen with scholarship influenced by contemporary theorists such as Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, and Amartya Sen. It emphasizes comparative studies involving policy episodes tied to administrations such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, analyses of financial crises exemplified by the Asian financial crisis and the 2008 financial crisis, and work on institutions including the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve System. The journal solicits contributions on topics ranging from industrial strategy debates linked to John Maynard Keynes’s followers to debates over development models associated with Raúl Prebisch and Dani Rodrik.

Publication Details

Published quarterly by Routledge, the journal uses peer review procedures common to journals affiliated with academic presses and learned societies such as the Royal Economic Society and the American Economic Association. It appears in print and online formats and adheres to editorial standards comparable to those of journals like Cambridge Journal of Economics and New Left Review. Subscription and institutional access are managed via corporate platforms used by publishers including Taylor & Francis Group, while individual articles are distributed through indexing services and repositories connected to libraries like the British Library and the Library of Congress.

Notable Contributors and Articles

Contributors have included scholars and public intellectuals associated with institutions such as Harvard University, University of Chicago, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Yale University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, and University of Oxford. Notable authors and figures connected to themes published in the journal include Paul Krugman, Thomas Piketty, Ha-Joon Chang, Joseph Stiglitz, E. P. Thompson, David Harvey, Susan Strange, Simon Kuznets, Joan Robinson, Hyman Minsky, Robert Brenner, Gerald A. Cohen, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Amartya Sen, Elinor Ostrom, Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson, Immanuel Wallerstein, Nancy Fraser, Alex Callinicos, Ben Fine, John Kenneth Galbraith, W. Arthur Lewis, Thorstein Veblen, and Herbert Spencer. Influential articles addressed methodologies linked to Marxian economics, institutional analyses connected to structuralist debates, and policy critiques of neoliberal reforms enacted in nations such as Chile, Argentina, and Greece.

Impact and Reception

The journal has been cited in debates across scholarship networks including those centered on the World Trade Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and United Nations agencies, influencing discussions at conferences such as meetings of the International Sociological Association and the Economic History Association. Reviews in periodicals like Times Higher Education and citations in works published by presses such as Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press indicate its standing among critical political economy journals. The journal figures in curricular reading lists at universities such as University of Warwick, SOAS University of London, University of Edinburgh, and University of Manchester.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in major services and bibliographic databases including Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCO, ProQuest, JSTOR, and Google Scholar. It is included in citation indexes that inform impact metrics produced by organizations such as Clarivate Analytics and is discoverable via consortia and catalogues like WorldCat and the Directory of Open Access Journals where applicable.

Category:Political economy journals