- American Economic Association
The American Economic Association, or AEA, is the oldest and most important professional organization in the field of
economics .Fact|date=August 2008 It was established in 1885 by religious and social reformerRichard T. Ely and others who had been trained inGermany underGustav Schmoller and other members of the "younger" German Historical School. 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 isAvinash Dixit ofPrinceton University . [cite web |url=http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/officers.htm |title=AEA Officers |accessdate=2007-05-17 ]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 isSusan Athey .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)
1985
Charles P. Kindleberger 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
1972
John Kenneth Galbraith 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
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. Miller1989
Jacob Mincer /Guy H. Orcutt 1988
Hendrik S. Houthakker /Roy Radner 1987
Arthur S. Goldberger / Thomas C. Schelling1985
Joseph Pechman /Paul Rosenstein-Rodan 1984
Evsey D. Domar /Albert O. Hirschman 1983
Abram Bergson /James M. Buchanan 1982
Joe S. Bain / Gerard Debreu1981
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 References
External links
* [http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/index.htm The American Economic Association]
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