Allied Social Sciences Association
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The Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) is a group of academic and professional organizations that are officially recognized by the American Economic Association(AEA) and are related to the study of social sciences
. As of 2007, there are fifty organizations that participate in the annual meetings of the ASSA, including:
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
. As of 2007, there are fifty organizations that participate in the annual meetings of the ASSA, including:
- Agricultural & Applied Economics AssociationAgricultural & Applied Economics AssociationThe Agricultural & Applied Economics Association is a professional association for those interested in the field of agricultural and applied economics. AAEA members work for academic departments, government agencies, NGOs, think tanks, and in the private sector, and focus on a combination of...
(AAEA) - American Economic AssociationAmerican Economic AssociationThe American Economic Association, or AEA, is a learned society in the field of economics, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. It publishes one of the most prestigious academic journals in economics: the American Economic Review...
(AEA) - American Finance AssociationAmerican Finance AssociationThe American Finance Association is an academic organization whose focus is the study and promotion of knowledge of financial economics. It was formed in 1939...
(AFA) - American Real Estate and Urban EconomicsUrban economicsUrban economics is broadly the economic study of urban areas; as such, it involves using the tools of economics to analyze urban issues such as crime, education, public transit, housing, and local government finance...
Association (AREUEA) - American Society of Hispanic EconomistsAmerican Society of Hispanic EconomistsThe American Society of Hispanic Economists , founded in 2002, is a professional association of economists who are concerned with the under-representation of Hispanics in the economics profession at a time when Hispanics represent over 15 percent of the U.S...
(ASHE, recognized by the AEA in January 2009) - Association of Christian Economics (ACE)
- Association for Comparative EconomicComparative economic systemsComparative economic systems is the subfield of economics dealing with the comparative study of different systems of economic organization, such as capitalism, socialism, feudalism and the mixed economy...
Studies (ACES) - Association for Economic and Development Studies on BangladeshBangladeshBangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
(AEDSB) - Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)
- Association for Evolutionary EconomicsEvolutionary economicsEvolutionary economics is part of mainstream economics as well as heterodox school of economic thought that is inspired by evolutionary biology...
(AFEE) - Association of Financial EconomistsFinancial economicsFinancial Economics is the branch of economics concerned with "the allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment"....
(AFE) - Association of Indian Economic Studies (AIES)
- Association for Social EconomicsAssociation for Social EconomicsThe Association for Social Economics , founded in New York City in 1941, is an international organization dedicated to high quality research in the broadly defined area of social economics, and is part of the Allied Social Sciences Association...
(ASE) - Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE)
- Association for the Study of the Grants Economy (ASGE)
- Chinese Economic Association in North America (CEANA)
- Chinese Economist Society (CES)
- CliometricCliometricsCliometrics, sometimes called new economic history, or econometric history, is the systematic application of economic theory, econometric techniques, and other formal or mathematical methods to the study of history . It is a quantitative approach to economic history...
Society (CS) - Econometric SocietyEconometric SocietyThe Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation with statistics and mathematics. It was founded on December 29, 1930 at the Stalton Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio....
(ES) - Economic HistoryEconomic historyEconomic history is the study of economies or economic phenomena in the past. Analysis in economic history is undertaken using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and by applying economic theory to historical situations and institutions...
Association (EHA) - Economic Science Association (ESA)
- Economists for Peace and SecurityEconomists for Peace and SecurityEconomists for Peace and Security is a United Nations-registered, New York-based NGO which links economists interested in peace and security issues. Inspired by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, it was founded in 1989 as Economists Against the Arms Race , before becoming...
(EPS) - Health EconomicsHealth economicsHealth economics is a branch of economics concerned with issues related to efficiency, effectiveness, value and behavior in the production and consumption of health and health care...
Research Programme (HERO) - History of Economics Society (HES)
- Industrial OrganizationIndustrial organizationIndustrial organization is the field of economics that builds on the theory of the firm in examining the structure of, and boundaries between, firms and markets....
Society (IOS) - International Association for Energy EconomicsEnergy economicsEnergy economics is a broad scientific subject area which includes topics related to supply and use of energy in societies. Due to diversity of issues and methods applied and shared with a number of academic disciplines, energy economics does not present itself as a self contained academic...
(IAEE) - International Association For Feminist EconomicsFeminist economicsFeminist economics broadly refers to a developing branch of economics that applies feminist lenses to economics. Research under this heading is often interdisciplinary or heterodox...
(IAFFE) - International Economics and Finance Society (IEFS)
- International Health EconomicsHealth economicsHealth economics is a branch of economics concerned with issues related to efficiency, effectiveness, value and behavior in the production and consumption of health and health care...
Association (IHEA) - International Network for Economic MethodologyEconomic methodologyEconomic methodology is the study of methods, especially the scientific method, in relation to economics, including principles underlying economic reasoning...
(INEM) - International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR)
- International Society for New Institutional EconomicsNew institutional economicsNew institutional economics is an economic perspective that attempts to extend economics by focusing on the social and legal norms and rules that underlie economic activity.-Overview:...
(ISNIE) - International Trade and Finance Association (ITFA)
- The Korea-America Economic Association (KAEA)
- Labor and Employment Relations AssociationLabor and Employment Relations AssociationThe Labor and Employment Relations Association, founded in 1947, as the Industrial Relations Research Association, is an organization for professionals in industrial relations and human resources. Headquartered at the at the , the national organization has more than 3,000 members...
(LERA) - Middle East Economic Association (MEEA)
- National Association for Business EconomicsNational Association for Business EconomicsThe National Association for Business Economics is the largest international association of applied economists, strategists, academics, and policy-makers committed to the application of economics. Founded in 1959, it is one of the member organizations of the Allied Social Sciences Association...
(NABE) - National Association of Economic Educators (NAEE)
- National Association of Forensic EconomicsForensic economicsForensic economics is the scientific discipline that applies economic theories and methods to the issue of pecuniary damages as specified by case law and legislative codes...
(NAFE) - National Council on Economic Education (NCEE)
- National Economic Association (NEA)
- National Tax Association (NTA)
- North American Economics and Finance Association (NAEFA)
- Omicron Delta EpsilonOmicron Delta EpsilonOmicron Delta Epsilon is an international honor society in the field of economics. Resulting from the merger of Omicron Delta Gamma and Omicron Chi Epsilon, ODE was founded in 1963 . Its board of trustees includes well-known economists such as Robert Lucas, Kenneth Arrow, and Robert Solow...
(ODE) - Peace Science Society International (PSSI)
- Society for Computational EconomicsComputational economicsComputational economics is a research discipline at the interface between computer science and economic and management science. Areas encompassed include agent-based computational modeling, computational modeling of dynamic macroeconomic systems and transaction costs, other applications in...
(SCE) - Society for Economic Dynamics (SED)
- Society of Government Economists (SGE)
- Society of Policy Modeling (SPM)
- TransportationTransport economicsTransport economics is a branch of economics that deals with the allocation of resources within the transport sector and has strong linkages with civil engineering. Transport economics differs from some other branches of economics in that the assumption of a spaceless, instantaneous economy does...
and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) - Union for Radical Political EconomistsHeterodox economics"Heterodox economics" refers to approaches or to schools of economic thought that are considered outside of "mainstream economics". Mainstream economists sometimes assert that it has little or no influence on the vast majority of academic economists in the English speaking world. "Mainstream...
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