Economy & Society

Happy to report from the December Editorial Board meeting that there are many fantastic papers and superb special issues and special sections forthcoming. The cheese board was excellent, too

Tis the season to ... submit to Economy and Society’s Early-Career Paper Prize 2026.
Competition closes 15th December 2025. The winner will receive a £1,000 award

Tis the season to ... submit to Economy and Society’s Early-Career Paper Prize 2026.
Competition closes 15th December 2025. The winner will receive a £1,000 award

I know things are feeling like end of year limp/crush right now … but this is too good an opportunity to pass by if you are considering submitting an article to @econsocjournal.bsky.social 💫

‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’: Human capital and endogenous mortality in Gary Becker’s work Chicago School economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Gary Becker writes that ‘most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if more re...

Check out the brilliant @cibled.bsky.social in @econsocjournal.bsky.social on the extremes of Becker's human capital theory & its normalisation of inequality.

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Economy and Society Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945–2025. Volume 54, Issue 3 of Economy and Society

Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945-2025, a key contributor to our journal in recent decades, Issue 3 of 2025 is out today.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

Economy and Society Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945–2025. Volume 54, Issue 3 of Economy and Society

Pull up for a bumper issue, nine articles, from ecologization as a mode of economization to the prompting of generative AI models in UK government, with stops in Brazil, Venezuela, Kenya and the US along the way!

www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

Open Access Journal Special Section 👉 Beyond Islam: A tribute to Sami Zubaida
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‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’: Human capital and endogenous mortality in Gary Becker’s work Chicago School economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Gary Becker writes that ‘most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if more re...

My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality

Excellent. Fitting tribute to a brilliant scholar.

Economy and Society Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945–2025. Volume 54, Issue 3 of Economy and Society

Pull up for a bumper issue, nine articles, from ecologization as a mode of economization to the prompting of generative AI models in UK government, with stops in Brazil, Venezuela, Kenya and the US along the way!

www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

No recent explosion, more sustained growth. Too many submissions are speculative and seem to be driven by the journal's metrics rather than aims and scope.

Economy and Society Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945–2025. Volume 54, Issue 3 of Economy and Society

Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945-2025, a key contributor to our journal in recent decades, Issue 3 of 2025 is out today.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

53 years young and still trending

It's great to know that one of our Latest Articles will be the focus for this reading group. We look forward to hearing about the conversations of @orgorgorgorgorg.bsky.social

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

New from algorithmic societies - The Politics of the Prompt: Government in the Age of Generative AI @econsocjournal.bsky.social So proud of this one, it reflects longstanding research tracing the politics of AI prompting. I love working with these fabulous folks www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

We are delighted to welcome four new members to our Editorial Board:

- Kimberly Chong (UCL)
- Sarah El-Kazaz (SOAS)
- Paul R. Gilbert (Sussex)
- Joy Y. Zhang (Kent)

Their disciplinary expertise and research interests will broaden and deepen our editorial collective.

So excited for the expansion of the E&S board with excellent colleagues! Welcome!

@kimberlychong.bsky.social
@joyzhang.bsky.social
@iliasalami.bsky.social
@cleabourne.bsky.social
@will-davies.bsky.social
@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
@ft-highbury.bsky.social

We are delighted to welcome four new members to our Editorial Board:

- Kimberly Chong (UCL)
- Sarah El-Kazaz (SOAS)
- Paul R. Gilbert (Sussex)
- Joy Y. Zhang (Kent)

Their disciplinary expertise and research interests will broaden and deepen our editorial collective.

‘Land makes me feel so secure’: Property, dependence and escape from ‘wageless life’ on Nairobi’s peri-urbanizing peripheries With reference to Michael Denning’s concept of ‘wageless life’, this paper illustrates the social and economic conditions under which young men in central Kenya attempt to escape precarious lives o...

Now available in Latest Articles. Peter Lockwood investigates property's promise of escape from a life of labour in Nairobi
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Drawing on Sumner’s folkways, this article traces how Southern Democrats ditching their defense of Jim Crow shifted the terrain from racial justice to federal intrusion, recasting discrimination as a private custom.

By Tamar Hofnung in @econsocjournal.bsky.social

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In case you missed this in the summer haze, our Early-Career Paper Prize 2026 is now open.
Deadline: 15th December 2025.
Publication plus £1,000 for the Prize winner!

American folkways: Laissez-faire and the economic objection to civil rights reform This paper examines how Southern Democrats reframed their opposition to anti-discrimination efforts during the 1945–1946 Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) debates by blending racial conserv...

Now available in Latest Articles, Tamar Hofnung's timely analysis of opposition to civil rights reform in 1940s America

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In case you missed this in the summer haze, our Early-Career Paper Prize 2026 is now open.
Deadline: 15th December 2025.
Publication plus £1,000 for the Prize winner!

Occult enemies of the market order Post-crisis transformations have sparked debates about a new authoritarian stage and/or post-neoliberal tendencies within neoliberal societies. Drawing on the Brazilian case, this paper analyses th...

Saiu publicado na Economy and Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social o artigo que escrevi com Guilherme Casarões (@casaroes.bsky.social), Letícia Cesarino (@letcesar.bsky.social) e Mariana Côrtes, intitulado "Occult enemies of the market order".
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great to see several articles from our journal included in this collection @tandfresearch.bsky.social All 40 articles in the collection are Free to Access before February 2026!
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We are greatly saddened by the passing of Michel Callon, a key contributor to debates in our journal about economization, marketization, and ecologization. RIP
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The Economy and Society Early Career Paper Prize 2026 is now live 🙌
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