Special issue (not numbered) for the 25-year Anniversary of the Review

Presentation

The Review of Economic Philosophy was created in 2000 by Alain Leroux (its first Chief-Editor) together with a few colleagues from the Departments of Economics (where Leroux was a Professor) and Philosophy/Ethics (such as Pierre Livet, then a Professor at “Université de Provence”.¹A. Leroux was a Professor at the Université de la Méditerranée. Like P. Livet, he was active in Aix-en-Provence, in Southern France. … Continue reading This creation was an event in the field with major consequences all along 20 years of uninterrupted publication for twenty years now. Celebrating that achievement²The Chief-Editors of the Review were, by chronological order Leroux, then Leroux and Alain Marciano, then Marciano and Emmanuel Picavet, until … Continue reading provides the chance to rejoice and offer a special issue 20th anniversary, while pushing the present Editorial Board to reflect about the field, its structure, the nature of its changing perspectives, its emergence as seen in retrospect and its legitimate purpose for the future.

Undeniably, the creation of the Review was an answer to a need strongly felt in the profession. In the English-speaking Academia, this had been recognized a few years earlier with the emergence of both journals Economics and Philosophy and the Journal of Economic Methodology (English-only journals while the French-born Review accepted texts in both languages from its start, thus actually being a French-based international bilingual journal from 2000 on, thus taking as a model the format of some Canadian academic reviews).

The need that was felt is not easily characterized, however. Indeed, it is just as well a matter of debate how “economic philosophy” (more often called “philosophy of economics” in the English-speaking world) should be defined, and even simply labelled: working towards a precious definition was devoutly to be wished and actively worked on from the start within the Review as well in side-publications (Leroux and Marciano 1998, Leroux and Livet 2005-2009, as well as later on Campagnolo and Jean-Sébastien Gharbi 2017, 2019, among others). In the Review of Economic Philosophy, various papers took that topic as their main goal, but all papers anyhow did so when dealing each in the manner of its author(s) with all the specific issues discussed along twenty years (we are looking at more than 300 papers).

The present “Twenty-year Anniversary Special Issue” (not numbered) provides a Preface by founders and an Introduction by present co-Chief Editors, with a selection of a symbolical number of 20 papers selected across the full range of years of publication, themes and currents of thought in the Review, nationality and genre of the contributors.

The present selection (see below) has no other meaning else than to be as illustrative as possible and displaying (of course only) some of present-day major issues in the field. Plenty of other choices could have been possible and representativeness be no less, since so many texts have been published by the successive Editorial Boards of the Review that it is for the symbol (and since a number had to be fixed) that 20 was decided for this “Anniversary issue”. They illustrate the evolution of the Review since its beginnings and in any case display the success-story of a Review that comforted its position within a competitive environment, for its readers, for its contributors, for its editors. Nowadays it can safely be said that the words “economic philosophy” can be used as commonly as “moral philosophy” and “political philosophy” in the field of “practical philosophy”, on the one hand, and just as mathematics, sociology or e anthropology, are represented within a range of methodological inputs in a variety of subfields in economics.

Last, let us greet our deepest thanks to the authors who kindly accepted this re-edition of their former articles, with some of them having slightly modified their texts, as is then indicated. The essays gathered here bear the indication of those changes when they were wished and made by the authors. Notice that, whereas the texts from the most recent years are accessible on the CAIRN portal, together with precise information (table of contents of all existing issues, and Instructions to authors) on the proper sites of the Review³Besides the present site, you may consult the site in French www.revue-philosophie-economique.com as well as the site of the publishing house, the … Continue reading, texts from the first decade of the Review in the years 2000 are sometimes impossible to retrieve anywhere else than in this collected volume. The Editorial Office wishes each and every reader a rich and enlightening reading experience with the papers listed below (Internet full-text publication as well as the paper issue are forthcoming at the time of writing this announcement).

Table of contents

Author(s)	Title	Original Pub.
Alain Leroux & Pierre Livet	Préface
Gilles Campagnolo & Emmanuel Picavet	Introduction
Jean-Pierre Dupuy	Sur la logique du détour	N°1, 200041st article.
John Rawls & Philippe van Parijs	Three Letters on The Law of Peoples and the European Union	N°7
Serge-Christophe Kolm	Quelques souvenirs de John Rawls	N°7
Catherine Audard	Rawls a-t-il une conception de la citoyenneté ?	N°7
Véronique Munoz-Dardé	Le partage des raisons	N°7
Amartya Sen	Social Identity	N°9
Maurice Lagueux	Peut-on séparer science et idéologie en économique ?	N°11
Francesco Guala	Talking about structures: the ‘transcendental’ argument	N°12, 2005
Wade Hands	Individual Psychology, rational Choice and Demand	N°13, 2006
Marc-Antoine Dilhac	Discriminations systématiques et égalité des opportunités	8/1, 2007
Deirdre McCloskey	Thrift as a Virtue, historically criticized	8/2, 2007
Marc Fleurbaey	Workplace Democracy as a Public Good	9/1, 2008
Mikael Cozic	Economie « sans esprit » et données cognitives	2012/1
Nicolas Brisset	Deux approches de l’influence du discours économique sur les phénomènes sociaux	2012/2
Catherine Larrère	Justice et environnement : regards croisés entre la philosophie et l’économie	2015/1
Daniel Hausman	Philosophy of Economics: A Retrospective Reflection	2017/2
Virgile Chassagnon	Pouvoir et entreprise : une analyse méthodologique et conceptuelle	2018/2
Jean Mercier-Ythier	Environnement et développement : esquisse de perspectives d’action communicative	2018/2
Yûichi Shionoya	L’économie, d’une rive à l’autre (avec présentation de l’auteur, p. ex. Obituary de Bertram Schefold)	2019/1
Claude Gamel	Fondements libéraux du revenu de base. Une argumentation combinant philosophie et économie	2018/2