American Economic Association
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The American Economic Association, or AEA, is the oldest and most important professional organization in the field of economics. It was established in 1885 by religious and social reformer Richard T. Ely and others who had been trained in Germany under Gustav Schmoller and other members of the "younger" German Historical School, as an association of "economists who repudiate laissez-faire as a scientific doctrine." The purposes of the Association are: 1) The encouragement of economic research, especially the historical and statistical study of the actual conditions of industrial life; 2) The issue of publications on economic subjects; 3) The encouragement of perfect freedom of economic discussion. The Association as such will take no partisan attitude, nor will it commit its members to any position on practical economic questions. Its current president is Avinash Dixit of Princeton University.[1]
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[edit] Activities
The AEA publishes three economics journals: the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. It also publishes EconLit, which is a database of economics articles from many different sources.
Every year, the Association holds a meeting at which members present papers. It is also an important event in the economics job market, because universities looking to hire new faculty members will often interview candidates at that time.
The AEA awards the John Bates Clark Medal, given biennially to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. The most recent winner is Susan Athey.
[edit] Past, Present, and Future Presidents
2010 Robert E. Hall
2009 Angus Deaton
2008 Avinash K. Dixit
2007 Thomas J. Sargent
2006 George A. Akerlof
2005 Daniel McFadden
2004 Martin Feldstein
2003 Peter A. Diamond
2002 Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
2001 Sherwin Rosen
2000 Dale W. Jorgenson
1999 D. Gale Johnson
1998 Robert W. Fogel
1997 Arnold C. Harberger
1996 Anne O. Krueger (second female president)
1995 Victor R. Fuchs
1994 Amartya Sen
1993 Zvi Griliches
1992 William Vickrey
1991 Thomas C. Schelling
1990 Gerard Debreu
1989 Joseph A. Pechman
1988 Robert Eisner
1987 Gary S. Becker
1986 Alice M. Rivlin (first female president)
1984 Charles L. Schultze
1983 W. Arthur Lewis
1982 Gardner Ackley
1981 William J. Baumol
1980 Moses Abramovitz
1979 Robert M. Solow
1978 Tjalling C. Koopmans (Jacob Marschak died before taking office.)
1977 Lawrence R. Klein
1976 Franco Modigliani
1975 Robert Aaron Gordon
1974 Walter W. Heller
1973 Kenneth J. Arrow
1971 James Tobin
1970 Wassily Leontief
1969 William J. Fellner
1968 Kenneth E. Boulding
1967 Milton Friedman
1966 Fritz Machlup
1965 Joseph J. Spengler
1964 George J. Stigler
1963 Gottfried Haberler
1962 Edward S. Mason
1961 Paul A. Samuelson
1960 Theodore W. Schultz
1959 Arthur F. Burns
1958 George W. Stocking
1957 Morris A. Copeland
1956 Edwin E. Witte
1955 John D. Black
1954 Simon Kuznets
1953 Calvin B. Hoover
1952 Harold A. Innis
1951 John H. Williams
1950 Frank H. Knight
[edit] Distinguished Fellows
2008 W. Erwin Diewert / Dale T. Mortensen / Charles R. Plott
2007 Orley C. Ashenfelter / Lloyd S. Shapley / Oliver E. Williamson
2006 Donald J. Brown / Richard A. Easterlin / Robert B. Wilson
2005 Stanley L. Engerman / Michael Rothschild / Hugo F. Sonnenschein
2004 William D. Nordhaus / George P. Shultz / William A. Brock
2003 Irma Adelman / Jagdish Bhagwati / T.N. Srinivasan
2002 Clive Granger / Arnold Zellner
2001 Rudiger Dornbusch / Allan H. Meltzer
2000 Jack Hirshleifer / Edmund S. Phelps
1999 David Cass / John Chipman
1998 Alan Heston / Robert Summers
1997 Martin Bronfenbrenner / Gordon Tullock
1996 Armen A. Alchian / Robert A. Mundell
1995 Geoffrey H. Moore / Walter Y. Oi
1994 John C. Harsanyi / Kelvin J. Lancaster
1993 Lionel W. McKenzie / Anna J. Schwartz
1992 Robert Dorfman / Vernon L. Smith
1991 Irving B. Kravis / Herbert E. Scarf
1990 Victor R. Fuchs / Merton H. Miller
1989 Jacob Mincer / Guy H. Orcutt
1988 Hendrik S. Houthakker / Roy Radner
1987 Arthur S. Goldberger / Thomas C. Schelling
1985 Joseph Pechman / Paul Rosenstein-Rodan
1984 Evsey D. Domar / Albert O. Hirschman
1983 Abram Bergson / James M. Buchanan
1982 Joe S. Bain / Gerard Debreu
1981 Edward F. Denison / H. Gregg Lewis
1980 Charles P. Kindleberger / Solomon Fabricant
1979 Margaret G. Reid / Ronald H. Coase
1978 Richard A. Musgrave / William S. Vickrey
1977 Harry G. Johnson / Leonid Hurwicz
1976 Oskar Morgenstern / Herbert A. Simon
1975 Moses Abramovitz
1973 Tibor Scitovsky
1972 Robert Aaron Gordon / Carl S. Shoup
1971 Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen / Tjalling C. Koopmans
1970 William Arthur Lewis
1969 Ludwig E. von Mises / Alexander Gerschenkron
1968 Lloyd A. Metzler
1967 Jacob Marschak
1966 Abba P. Lerner
1965 Edward H. Chamberlin / Harold Hotelling
[edit] References
- ^ AEA Officers. Retrieved on 2007-05-17.
