Call for Papers

Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, January 5-8, 2006.

AFEE invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels at the above AFEE sessions. The overriding theme of the AFEE sessions will be: "Theoretical Frontiers of Institutional and Evolutionary Economics". Preference will be given to papers and panels that address one or more of the following issues:

(1) Cutting-edge theoretical developments relevant to institutional and evolutionary economics in the twenty-first century.

(2) The nature and identity of institutional and evolutionary economics and the elucidation of its key concepts.

(3) The empirical testing or practical application of institutional and evolutionary approaches.

(4) The relevance to institutional and evolutionary economics of insights from other approaches that may distinguish themselves in label or substance from the original institutional economics, such as from mainstream economics, the new institutional economics, social economics, socio-economics, feminist economics, Schumpeterian evolutionary economics, and sociology.

Proposals from any perspective are welcomed; particularly those that enhance dialogue and promote theoretical synergies. Ideally at some stage each paper should (at least briefly) address one or more of the theoretical traditions fostered within AFEE, emanating from the works of Veblen, Commons, Mitchell, Ayres, Myrdal and others.

The deadline for submission of proposals for papers and sessions is March 14, 2005. It is hoped to inform authors whether their proposals for papers have been accepted by the end of April. If the program chair has not acknowledged the receipt of your paper or panel proposal within two weeks, please contact the program chair.

Proposals for panels may contain up to five papers, and must include relevant details of all the papers to be presented (see below).Constraints imposed by the Allied Social Sciences Association severely limit the number of sessions allocated to AFEE. AFEE deeply regrets that it will be necessary to turn down many good proposals.

In considering your topic and preparing your abstract, please keep in mind that you will have no more than twenty minutes to present your paper. Furthermore, if you wish your paper to be considered for publication in the June 2006 Journal of Economic Issues, your paper must not exceed 2,850 words of text. The deadline for submission to the editor for consideration for the June issue of JEI is December 1, 2005. JEI submission details will be provided to authors whose proposals are accepted for the conference.

Authors have the option of submitting longer papers to alternative journals, such as the newly-founded Journal of Institutional Economics, published by Cambridge University Press.

At least one of the authors of any paper must be a member of AFEE. Contact afee@bucknell.edu for membership information.

Proposals for papers or panels must be submitted by email by March 14, 2005 to g.m.hodgson@herts.ac.uk Please include the following information for each paper submitted:

(a) Name(s) of author(s)
(b) Professional affiliation(s)
(c) Email address of corresponding author
(d) Mailing address of corresponding author
(e) Title of proposed paper
(f) Abstract of 100-300 words
(g) Your willingness to serve as a discussant or session chair (specify field)

February 19, 2005.