As we move towards a world where public discourse increasingly sheds the niceties that once masked accumulation and dispossession, we strive to understand what this shift means for societies and economies today and in the future. Against a backdrop of growing uncertainty for the prospect of securing livelihoods, the flaunting of alliances between oligarchs and the state, the development of technology for total surveillance by the state-corporate nexus, the erosion of safety nets, backsliding from any modest steps to confront the planetary ecological crisis, a retreat from multilateralism to narrowed national interests, and the weakening of any and all institutions of redress — we continue to examine national and global phenomena through a lens rooted in equity and justice.
The Association for Social Economics (ASE) is accepting proposals for papers/sessions at the 2026 ASSA Meetings to be held January 3-5, 2026 in Philadelphia, PA. While we will give preference to papers that address the contemporary situation outlined above, we welcome researchers to submit proposals in keeping with these broad themes:
· The relationship between questions of resource distribution and ethical values.
· Race and Gender and other identity-group stratification as they relate to economic matters.
· The ethical presuppositions and implications of economic theory, methods, and use of data.
· Personal and social aspects of economic challenges amidst growing wealth and income disparities.
· Global economic interactions with a focus on fairness and equity among regions and nations.
· Economic policies and how they are aligned with individual and collective betterment.
In the case of individual papers, sessions will be assembled around synergies between ideas and/or methods and may include counterpoints to encourage discussion of what social economics means for ASE. Members are also encouraged to submit panels or entire sessions with four or five presenters. Graduate students are welcome to submit as well. Every effort will be made to balance individual papers with panels.
The Forum for Social Economics will provide a fast track for the papers presented at the ASSA and authors are encouraged to submit their papers to the journal after checking that they fit the aims and scope of the journal. Nonmembers may also submit a proposal. However, all proposals selected for ASE/ASSA 2026 must be from members in good standing before the start of the ASSA Meetings.
Due to limited session slots, we are unlikely to be able to accept all submissions. Papers and sessions not accepted for the ASE program will be automatically considered for the ASE portion of the ICAPE conference, which will be held just before the ASSA meetings. See icape.org for details.
Please use the following form to submit your proposal by April 30, 2025. There will be no extensions.
