The first 11 paper submissions from 2012

A full day of working with manuscripts for Socio-Economic Review today. Some papers coming are very exciting with excellent integration of theoretical argument and empirical social science. Other things going in the reject box--broad essayistic arguments about the state of the world, or decent empirical and applied research papers from narrow fields of study that do not link to the general themes of the journal. One very rich empirical paper came in that took almost zero account of previous theoretical work in the field. A constructive comment was provided. A satisfying workday, now done.