Journal Scope


The boundaries between fields of research are fictive, as there are no absolute boarders between academic fields. At some point, physics becomes chemistry, chemistry becomes biology, biology becomes behaviour, and behaviour turns social. Behaviour turns into organisations, businesses and institutions, and as a result, forms into a culture and society. What unites the fields is the diffusion of scarce resources in one form or another. This diffusion can be unmanaged or perceived as conscious, i.e. perceived as managed. Resources can be physical (water, electricity, medications, etc.), monetary, time, space, managerial (brainpower, patience, etc.), attention, etc. Essentially, this includes everything and anything that is an asset and assets are limited.

Importantly, any paper, in any field, can be (re)written with a more or less explicit focus on one or more limited resources. Arguably, here lies a fundamental contribution, as it is through evolution that the most efficient deployment of resources result and thus, society evolves. Put differently, behaviour with survival value will survive, regardless of if the behaving unit (of selection) is a molecule, a biological cell, an ecosystem, a society, a culture, an organisation, an industry, or a human being. Moreover, the program code for the behaviour in question may be stored in the workings of an atom, in the genetics of the species (learning at the species level), or in the form of learned experiences of an individual (learning at the individual level). Thus, in sum, the journal scope includes economic matters, or put differently, the matter of limited resources across all topics and fields.


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