He pursued this radical agenda at extraordinarily personal sacrifice and on three different continents. The AJES is proud of its linkages with the Henry George legacy for two important reasons. First, we publish interdisciplinary articles that are of interest to those seeking and striving for an understanding of the fundamental principles of social science. Second, we look forward to the day when things will be again as they were in George's time with sociologists exchanging ideas with economists, economists with legal scholars, legal scholars with political scientists, and all with each other through the medium of a broad interdisciplinary journal. The AJES publishes five-thousand word scholarly articles that attempt to offer analysis and understanding of social scientific phenomena.
Most articles are refereed and editorial suggestions and criticisms are supplied as well.
At the same time we allow scholars to express their normative concerns whether it be about individual liberty, human rights and dignity, or the preservation of the natural environment in which we live. The rise of mathematical formalization in economics and the post-World War II emphasis on a macroeconomics of the short run, created the core ideas for the University major in economics. This neoclassical synthesis as it is called diverted interest from the larger questions surrounding institutional incentives, economic development, and the distinctive phenomena surrounding social life in commercial society. In some important ways, we understand the conceptual foundations of our own society better when we study what the best minds in our past had to say about these developments. The AJES has a long and distinguished history of publishing papers in the history of economic and social thought.