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

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

with an emphasis on

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microeconomic theory Microeconomics is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of individuals and Theory of the firm, firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarcity, scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms. M ...

, 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

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, a division of

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