Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit
Last updated ISSN 0269-0942
Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit is published by SAGE Publishing in economics, econometrics and finance. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Regional Development and Policy
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Rural development and sustainability
- Local Economic Development and Planning
- Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0269-0942, 1470-9325 |
| Subject area | Economics, Econometrics and Finance |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,106 |
| Publishing since | 1986 |
| Journal website | lec.sagepub.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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