History
The journal was founded in 1983 as an occasional series concerned with aspects of the Homo economicus concept (homo oeconomicus). Manfred J. Holler (Professor at the Institute of SocioEconomics, University of Hamburg) is its founding editor.
It began life as a German language publication, but it has published all articles in English since 1998. Holler has said that the mixture of German and English articles had deterred some subscribers, and that subscriptions picked up after the magazine stopped accepting German language submissions.
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