TY - JOUR AU - Guseva, Alya AB - Socio-Economic Review, 2023, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1–3 https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwad006 Editorial Editorial Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva The launch of the Socio-Economic Review 20 years ago should have surprised no one with any scholarly interest in capitalism. The journal was the result of more than a decade-long intellectual movement that began with the creation of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in 1989 at the initiative of Amitai Etzioni. His communitarian vision, aca- demic reputation and entrepreneurship attracted both top scholars and young researchers to the intellectual project of developing alternatives to the dominance of neoliberal thinking. The alternative approach was to view the economy in the wider context of political and so- cial forces and moral concerns, and that in turn, called for inviting social science disciplines that had been marginalized by neoclassical economics to investigate the economy. Years of gathering scholars from both sides of the Atlantic and community building resulted in the Madison Declaration on the Need for Socio-Economic Research in 1999. If the idea of socio-economics looked quaint and marginal in the late 1980s, by the 2000s it was a thriving intellectual movement very much riding the waves of the times. As the Socio-Economic Review TI - Our First 20 Years JO - Socio-Economic Review DO - 10.1093/ser/mwad006 DA - 2023-03-17 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/our-first-20-years-zFUiSNf0l5 SP - 1 EP - 3 VL - 21 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -