''Journal of Economics'', founded as ''Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie'', is an

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economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

with an emphasis on mathematical microeconomic theory, although it publishes occasional articles on

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. ''Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie'' was first published in 1930, as a revival of an earlier ''Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft, Sozialpolitik und Verwaltung'' which was published from 1892 into 1927 (from 1921 under the name ''Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Socialpolitik''). The initial editor of ''Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie'' was Hans Mayer, a third-generation member of the

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. Mayer avowedly welcomed contributions from all schools of thought, so long as the work were scientifically rigorous and not politically ideological in nature.Hans Mayer: ''Zur Einführung''. In: ''Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie'', , Volume 1, No 1, pp. 1–3, . It is published by Springer

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

, a division of

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