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The Evolution of the Allied Social Science Associations

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The organization of the meetings of the approximately 50 economics associations of the Allied Social Science Associations has evolved over the past 140 years, beginning with meetings of the American Social Science Association in 1865, which included social scientists from political science, history, sociology, and economics. Out of this association, the separate disciplines formed their own organizations beginning in the 1880s. Though several of these associations continued to meet together until the 1930s, each discipline gradually separated its meetings from those of the others. During the 1940s, however, other newly formed economics associations began meeting at the same time and place as the AEA, and the Allied Social Science Associations evolved out of these meetings. Though the name of the organization includes “social science,” the associations meeting together are predominately, if not completely, economics associations. These associations, however, profess many different approaches to the study of economics. This paper traces the evolution of these meetings and attempts to come to some conclusions concerning the significance of this association, the most important of which is the role of the ASSA in providing a broad and tolerant platform and a vehicle through which different points of view toward economic theory and policy can be discussed.

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  • Betsy Jane Clary, 2008. "The Evolution of the Allied Social Science Associations," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 67(5), pages 985-1005, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:67:y:2008:i:5:p:985-1005
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2008.00607.x
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