The Association for Social Economics (ASE), 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. Social economics is the study of the ethical and social causes and consequences of economic behavior, institutions, organizations, theory, and policy. The fields of research promoted by ASE include the mutual relationships among ethics, social values, concepts of social justice, and the social dimensions of economic life.