Call for abstracts:

HISTORY OF ECONOMIC RATIONALITIES - ECONOMIC REASONING AS KNOWLEDGE
AND PRACTICE AUTHORITY

edited by Jakob Bek-Thomsen, Christian Olaf Christiansen, Stefan
Gaarsmand Jacobsen & Mikkel Thorup

Regimes of thought and legitimizations of action draw upon
systematized authorities of religious, juridical, moral, scientific
and increasingly economic reasoning. These authoritative languages
interrelate in various ways. They compete to be the prime, societal
authority; they supplant each other; they borrow metaphors, concepts,
practices; they subvert and change existing languages.

To address these interrelations the research project ECORA invites
interested scholars to submit extended abstracts (5 pages) on the
history of economic rationalities and the struggles for authority
between economic reasoning and other claims for knowledge- and
practice-authority in Western thought. The final articles will be
published as an anthology with the preliminarily title History of
Economic Rationalities: Economic reasoning as knowledge and practice
authority.

As an analytical concept, economic rationality can refer to at least
three things. First, it can refer to particular kinds of economic
reasoning which draw upon, for example, neoclassical economics.
Second, it can refer to the role of economic arguments in public
debates, as opposed to other forms of arguments, where, for example,
the construction of a highway is deemed economically but not
environmentally sound. Third, it can refer to the legitimacy of
various kinds of economic actions and practices.

Our aim is to produce a high quality anthology on the intellectual
history of economic thought. At a time in which many academic fields
are becoming more and more specialized, we believe that one of the
very merits of intellectual history is its ability to tell stories
that tries to capture the wholeness of historical development. We thus
encourage contributors to engage in attempts at writing broader
historical narratives.

  Abstracts must be submitted to one of four epochal sections of the anthology:

·         Early Modern, c. 1400-1700
For any questions regarding contributions to this section, please feel
free to contact Jakob Bek-Thomsen ([log in to unmask])

·         The Enlightenment, c. 1700-1850
For any questions regarding contributions to this section, please feel
free to contact Stefan Gaardsmand Jacobsen ([log in to unmask])

·         Industrial modernity, c. 1850-1970
For any questions regarding contributions to this section, please feel
free to contact Christian Olaf Christiansen ([log in to unmask]).

·         Contemporary society, c. 1970-present
For any questions regarding contributions to this section, please feel
free to contact Christian Olaf Christiansen ([log in to unmask]).

We invite scholars with an interest in the history of economic thought
and economic life in general to submit an article proposal. We
particularly encourage scholars working with the interrelations
between economic, religious and/or scientific reasoning to submit as
well as people understanding their work as, or related to the history
of economic thought, 'intellectual history of capitalism, history of
economic ideas, as well as history of science and science studies.

Please note that suggested contributions from participants in the
conference 'Economic Rationalities', January 2014, as well as article
proposals from contributors who did not attend the conference will be
treated equally. All abstracts will be judged on the same basis: fit
to the anthology and scientific quality.


Submission Guidelines

Please submit your abstract proposals (max 2000 words) as a PDF file
to [log in to unmask] Make sure to properly title your file like this:
SURNAME_TITLE.PDF

Deadline for extended abstracts: May 1st 2014 (feedback and decision
on abstracts May 15th 2014).

If accepted, deadline for submission of full article is October 1st 2014.

The full article length is 4000 words all included. Please reduce the
use of notes (use endnotes) to an absolute minimum.  Double-space text
and use font Times New Roman, size 12. Title should be in uppercase
bold, subtitles in bold. For references use Harvard manual of style
(Johnson 2012:32).


Editors
The anthology is edited by the members of the research project ECORA
(http://ecora.au.dk/) located at the Department of Culture and
Society, Aarhus University, and funded by the Velux Foundation.