Socio-Economic Review

SER Cafe

SER Café: an online, real-time discussion forum where members of the audience can virtually meet and interact with the authors of one or two papers recently published in Socio-Economic Review. The audience is expected to have read the articles.

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As with all SER Cafe events, we will facilitate a dynamic conversation with the authors. No lengthy talks. Our authors look forward to your questions and comments.

SER on Tap

Hosted by Jacob Bromberg, SER on Tap is a podcast produced by the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics to expand on and draw out implications of recent articles published in Socio-Economic Review through interviews with the authors.

EPISODE 4
Timur Ergen (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies) and Sebastian Kohl (Free University Berlin) speak with us about their article, “Rival views of economic competition,” which schematizes moral arguments made in regard to economic competition so as to open a systematic ethical debate on the matter.
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EPISODE 3
Steve McDonald (North Carolina State University), Amanda Damarin (Georgia State University), and Scott Grether (Longwood University) discuss their article “The hunt for red flags: cybervetting as morally performative practice,” which examines the wildly freeform and morally as well as practically dubious exercise of “cybervetting”.
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EPISODE 2
Jonathan Mijs (Boston University) discusses his article “The paradox of inequality: income inequality and belief in meritocracy go hand in hand,” which explores the baffling paradox by which countries faced with growing inequality experience less popular concern regarding inequality than do more egalitarian nations.
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EPISODE 1
David Hope (King’s College London) and Julian Limberg (King’s College London) discuss their article “The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich.” The article considers the dramatic decline in taxes on the rich across advanced democracies over the past 50 years and seeks to estimate the average effects of major tax reforms on income inequality, economic growth, and unemployment.
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Past SER Café Events

2023

The first SER Café of 2023 was held on Thursday, February 9 at 4pm UTC (11am US Eastern/8am US Pacific/5pm Central European).

We spoke with Ekaterina Svetlova (University of Twente) and Akos Rona-Tas (UC San Diego) about the relationship between technology, economy, and society.

The authors discussed their respective SER articles, “AI Meets Narrative: The State of Research on Expectation Formation in Sociology and Economics” (2021) and “Predicting the Future: Art and Algorithms” (2020).

The third SER Café of 2023 will be held on Monday, June 19, at 11am EST/ 8am PST/ 5pm CET! We will be speaking with Cèline Bessiére (Paris Dauphine University),  alongside Daria Tisch (Max Plank Institute for the Study of Societies) and Tamara Gutfleisch (Manneheim Centre for European Social Research) about the relationship between intergenerational transfers, wealth, and gender inequality. The authors will briefly discuss their respective SER articles, “Reversed Accounting: Legal Professionals, Families, and the Gender Wealth Gap in France” (2019) and “Unequal but Just? Experimental Evidence on (Gendered) Distributive Justice Principles in Parental Financial Gifts” (2022).

We will follow the discussion with an extended Q & A session. Please use this link to register for this timely conversation!

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Socio-Economic Review Café: Close Relationships, Trust, and the Economy

The event will take place on Thursday, November 16th, at 9 AM PST/12 PM EST/6 PM CET. Register at this link! The audience is expected to have read the articles.

Featuring a conversation with SER authors Wenjuan Zheng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), David Shulman (Lafayette College), and Kent Grayson (Northwestern University) 

Join us for a discussion of close relationships and the potential and pitfalls of trust in the economy, as well as the ways technology can mediate these dynamics. Shulman and Grayson’s paper “Et Tu, Brute? Unraveling the puzzle of deception and broken trust in close relations” (2023)  discusses why closeness, as with friends or coworkers, is no guarantee of trust, revisiting theoretical discussions of trust to shed light on detection errors and associational dilemmas. Meanwhile, Zheng’s paper “Converting donation to transaction: how platform capitalism exploits relational labor in non-profit fundraising” (2023) investigates what happens when platforms intermediate trusting relationships, demonstrating how they reconfigure charity events and mediate civic interactions through invisible value extraction. 

Together, these papers offer insights into how trust is built, maintained, and challenged in a world increasingly facilitated by technology. 

As with all SER Cafe events, we will facilitate a dynamic conversation with the authors rather than lengthy talks. Come ready to engage. 

2022

The inaugural SER Café took place on 3 June 2022 at 4pm UTC (12pm US Eastern/9am US Pacific/6pm Central European).

The Platform Economy

Featured Articles

• Antagonism beyond employment: how the ‘subordinated agency’ of labour platforms generates conflict in the remote gig economy with Vili Lehdonvirta (University of Oxford), co-authored by Alex Wood (University of Bristol)
• Odds stacked against workers: datafied gamification on Chinese and American food delivery platforms with Niels van Doorn (University of Amsterdam), co-authored by Julie Yujie Chen (University of Toronto)

Both articles were published in SER’s special issue on Understanding the Platform Economy. 

The conversation was moderated by SER student interns Gokhan Mulayim, Amy Knight, and Bernardo Mackenna.

Sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

SER Call for proposals

Socio-Economic Review (SER) aims to encourage work on the relationship between society, economy, institutions and markets, moral commitments and the rational pursuit of self-interest.          

Impact Factor 3.7

5-year Impact Factor 4.4

 Call for proposals: 

Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review

Deadline:  September 15, 2024

 Socio-Economic Review (SER) is pleased to invite proposals for either of the thematic Special Issues to be published in 2025 or 2026.

A Special Issue is a peer reviewed collection of articles on a specific theme. The theme should normally focus on a new or distinctive area of inquiry insufficiently explored in socio-economic literature, has a broad relevance, and falls within the aims and scope of the journal. Thereby, a special issue provides an opportunity to collectively explore a new topic, develop insightful new lines of research and exchange in dialogue across disciplines such as sociology, political science, economics, business, law, or history.

A proposal should contain the following information:

1. The names, contact details, and positions of the proposed Guest Editor(s) together with brief biographical details.
2. The title of the proposed special issue.
3. A one-page “call for papers” indicating the main theme, key topics, and methodological foci for submissions to the Special Issue.
4. A list containing titles and short abstracts of any potential contributions, information about the authors and indication of their commitment. Guest editors are not permitted to submit regular peer review papers for the special issue, but are encouraged to write a substantive introductory article developing the state of the art around the topic.                                                                                                          
5. A description of the rationale behind the proposal, its planned scope, innovative nature in relation to existing published work, and likely relevance for readers of Socio-Economic Review. Please read the Editorial Policy Statement of SER via the following webpage: http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/
6. An envisioned timetable including a deadline for the first submission, a period for review and resubmission, and deadline for final print-ready papers.

Key Information:

The team of Guest Editors for the Special Issue will handle all manuscripts from their initial submission; they assign reviewers, and they make decisions (reject, revise, conditionally accept) and communicate those decisions to the authors. Guest Editors are encouraged to use a mix of invited and open submissions for the Special Issue, working to actively solicit quality submissions.  However, all manuscripts for the Special Issue must undergo double-blind peer review and revisions according to normal SER review process and in accordance with SER’s editorial policy and formal guidelines. Final acceptance of papers is done in consultation with the Editors of SER.

A special issue typically has 6-8 regular length papers plus editors’ introduction.  SER manuscripts are generally no longer than 10,000 words in length (inclusive of references, notes, tables, figures and appendices, but excluding online appendices). Manuscripts should follow a clear line of argument and written in a concise style without sacrificing meaningful content.

Proposals and queries may be sent to chief editor Akos Rona-Tas at: aronatas@ucsd.edu