International Economic Association

International Economic Association

Formation	1950
Legal status	Non-Governmental Organization
Purpose	Encourage research, publication, and free discussion of economic topics
Headquarters	Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Region served	Worldwide
Members	68
President	Kaushik Basu(India)
Main organ	Executive Committee
Website	IEA Official website

The International Economic Association (IEA) is a Non-Governmental Organization that was founded in 1950, at the instigation of the Social Sciences Department of UNESCO. It has since its creation maintained information and consultative relations with UNESCO and is since 1973 a federated member of the International Social Science Council.

Its aim from the beginning has been to promote personal contacts and mutual understanding among economists in different parts of the world through the organization of scientific meetings, through common research programs and by means of publications of an international character on problems of current importance.

Organization

The IEA has two main bodies which rule the association

Council

The IEA is governed by a Council, composed of representatives of all Member Associations as well as a limited number of co-opted members. The Council meets triennially when it reviews the general policy of the Association and elects the President and other Officers and members of the Executive Committee for a three-year term of office.

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee, which numbers 15 members (and 3 advisors), decides, in the light of the general policies approved by the Council, the subjects of specialists' conferences and other projects and selects the chairman of the Program Committee who will be entrusted with the scientific preparation of each project. The general practice is to invoke the aid of an economist of outstanding distinction in the subject who, with other members of the Committee chosen by him in consultation with the IEA Officers and Executive Committee, undertakes the scientific planning of the program and is responsible for the subsequent publication. Decisions concerning the work of the Association are taken by the President, in consultation with the other Officers, the Executive Committee frequently being consulted.

Executive Committee members

Assembles and Presidents

General assembles ^[1] and Presidents ^[2]

Nr.	Year	Location		Presidents
18.	2017	Santa Fe, Mexico City	Mexico
17.	2014	Dead Sea	Jordan	23.	2014- ...	Timothy Besley  United Kingdom
16.	2011	Beijing	China	22.	2011–2014	Joseph E. Stiglitz  United States
15.	2008	Istanbul	Turkey	21.	2008–2011	Masahiko Aoki  Japan
14.	2005	Marrakech	Morocco	20.	2005–2008	Guillermo Calvo  United States
13.	2002	Lisbon	Portugal	19.	2002–2005	János Kornai  Hungary
12.	1999	Buenos Aires	Argentina	18.	1999–2002	Robert M. Solow  United States
11.	1995	Tunis	Tunisia	17.	1995–1999	Jacques Drèze  Belgium
10.	1992	Moscow	Russia	16.	1992–1995	Michael Peter Bruno  Israel
9.	1989	Athens	Greece	15.	1989–1992	Anthony B. Atkinson  United Kingdom
8.	1986	New Delhi	India	14.	1986–1989	Amartya Sen  India
7.	1983	Madrid	Spain	13.	1983–1986	Kenneth Arrow  United States
6.	1980	Mexico	Mexico	12.	1980–1983	Victor L. Urquidi  Mexico
5.	1977	Tokyo	Japan	11.	1977–1980	Shigeto Tsuru  Japan
4.	1974	Budapest	Hungary	10.	1974–1977	Edmond Malinvaud  France
				9.	1971–1974	Fritz Machlup  United States
3.	1968	Montreal	Canada	8.	1968–1971	Erik Lundberg  Sweden
				7.	1965–1968	Paul A. Samuelson  United States
2.	1962	Vienna	Austria	6.	1962–1965	G. Ugo Papi  Italy
				5.	1959–1962	Edward Austin G. Robinson  United States
1.	1956	Rome	Italy	4.	1956–1959	Erik Lindahl  Sweden
				3.	1953–1956	Howard S. Ellis  United States
				2.	1950–1953	Gottfried Haberler  Austria &  United States
x	1950			1.	1950 (interim)	Joseph Alois Schumpeter  Austria &  United States

Membership

The IEA is in effect a federation of national academic associations or committees representing the economists of each country. It does not have individual members. Its Member Associations at the present time number 68 (including thirteen associate members). This does not however mean that economists from countries which are not represented by a Member Association do not take part in the IEA's work and meetings. In the implementation of each project, invitations are sent to those individuals or research institutes - regardless of nationality - which appear in the circumstances to be best qualified to make a serious contribution to the study of the subject chosen.

Activities

"Regional" conferences have been held in various parts of the world to study problems particular to the region, while "East-West" conferences have provided an opportunity for economists from Eastern and Western Europe to meet and discuss problems of common interest.

Particular attention has been paid also to problems of concern to developing countries by devoting whole conferences or sections of conferences and congresses to these problems. In the case of the developing countries considerable efforts have been made, often with the help of subsidies from UNESCO, the World Bank and the European Commission and international organizations to facilitate the participation of economists from these countries in the work of the IEA.

In essence, the activities of the IEA during the 65 years of its existence may be summed up as follows:

1. The organization of 115 specialists' conferences of a round-table type and the publication of 154 volumes of proceedings.

2. The organization of fifteen open international congresses: Rome 1956, Vienna 1962, Montreal 1968, Budapest 1974, Tokyo 1977, Mexico 1980, Madrid 1983, New Delhi 1986, Athens 1989, Moscow 1992, Tunis 1995, Buenos Aires 1999, Lisbon, 2002, Marrakech, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2008, Beijing, China, July 2011 and Dead Sea, Jordan, 2014. Each of the Congresses was followed by some volumes of proceedings published by Palgrave Macmillan.

References

External links

• Official website