Students' Work-In-Progress Competition

Posted by RHETM Editorial Team on 2025-06-19

The editors and governing board of Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) are delighted to announce the third Students’ Work-In-Progress Competition. 

The Students’ Work-In-Progress Competition offers an opportunity for students to work with RHETM’s experienced editors and editorial board members to bring an in-progress draft to fruition and to publish the final manuscript in RHETM. Our editorial team will select up to five (5) promising submissions and then work with the authors to bring their essays up to the journal’s exacting publication standards. 

Thanks to the generosity of our publisher, the Open Library of the Humanities, cash prizes will be awarded to the first-, second-, and third-place winners of the competition. 

Only papers authored by students are eligible. Authors with their PhD in hand at time of submission are not eligible. All authors on a co-authored paper must be students. 

Any and all topics related to economic methodology, the history of economics, or the philosophy of economics, all broadly construed, are eligible.

Papers must be true works-in-progress. We will consider papers that have been presented at conferences. However, papers that have been previously submitted for possible publication in an academic journal are not eligible. Papers cannot have benefitted from a previous round of refereeing. 

As with our standard review process, we will perform an internal review to determine an initial list of candidates. We will then work with our editorial-board members to select those papers worth dedicating close attention and care to bringing to fruition. Then we will work with the remaining authors to make their papers publishable. The winners of the competition will be determined at the end of this process. The winners will be the best papers that survive this gauntlet. 

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025