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Richard Hattwick has been the one and only editor of the Journal of Socio-Economics. Known as the Journal of Behavioral Economics from 1971 through 1990, the JSE is now in its 30th year. Richard has been devoted to JSE for thirty years. This, in itself, is an accomplishment. But, Richard founded and developed an academic journal from a university (Western Illinois University) without a Ph.D. program, and a very, very small budget.
I've spent some time at WIU with Richard and have worked with him since 1983. Richard and JSE gave support to behavioral economics research during its growth spurt during the early 1980s, the "Benny Gilad-Stan Kaish-Early SABE Years." Richard and JSE supported behavioral--socio-economics research during the late 1980s--early 1990s, the "Amitai Etzioni-Early SASE Years."
During the mid-1990s, Richard and JSE supported the expansion of socio-economics into law school curriculum through his association with the newly organized Law and Socio-Economic section of the Association of American Schools of Law.
JSE is now published by Elsevier Science. Before that, it was published by JAI Press, and before that, for fifteen years, Richard self-published JSE from Western Illinois University. The one constant throughout the past 30 years has been Richard Hattwick and his vision of what economics can be, and what an academic economics should be.
Richard sees economics as valuable in itself, but part of a larger whole, encompassing psychology, sociology, and ...