Emerald

International Journal Of Ethics And Systems

(ISSN 2514-9377)

Aims & scope

The International Journal of Ethics and Systems is a peer-reviewed academic journal for practitioners, scholars, and scientists interested in the ethical aspects of systems. Its objective is to focus on international ethics-related research that assists professionals, ethics scholars, systems specialists and scientists in their research and systems-related activities. It publishes original research articles, critical discussion papers, and reviews that revolve around a wide range of questions that can be grouped into main areas of interest, including but not limited to ethics-based studies of:

systems and their human, social, ecological, and financial impacts

epistemological and ontological precepts underlying systems

humanities-based alternatives to current systems.

Critical understanding of systems

What are the mechanisms, causes and effects of systems, such as social provisioning systems, markets, organizations, industries, and supply chains, which are increasingly complex, computational, unstable, and asymmetric in their power distribution? How do they reconfigure the human and operate as mechanisms for the validation of truth? What varieties of losses are incurred through these systems, including knowledge losses? How instrumental are such systems in cost-shifting and the redistribution of income?

Philosophical precepts and politics

What are the ethical, epistemological, ontological, and methodological commitments undergirding present systems’ dynamics? What are the political movements, thought collectives, organizations and networks that promulgate them? What is the role of economists and economic science?

Humanomics

What alternative traditions of thought can reroot systems in the human and even transform these systems? What ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies are suitable for a critical understanding of systems? What senses of economy and economic reasoning emerge and can be gathered from the humanities? How can these senses be translated into politics and practice? In particular, what is the potential of the substantive meaning of economy championed by heterodox economists for its explicitly normative, holistic, and institutional approach?

Critical and original submissions from all academic disciplines are invited, including transdisciplinary works that contribute to the above debates with theoretical, conceptual, or applied work. Contributions from heterodox economics which advance a pluralist and realist understanding of systems’ power structures are especially welcome.