Call for Papers
ASE at ASSA 2027
Social Economics: Exploring our Disciplinary and Cross-Disciplinary Roots and Re-advancing Ethics for Economics in a Changing World
In social economics, ethics encompasses the systematic and dialogical evaluation of economic life in light of multiple moral principles including human dignity, justice, solidarity, rights, virtue, care, and social welfare. The Association for Social Economics (ASE) invites scholars to reflect on intellectual foundations of social economics and to examine how our interdisciplinary roots in moral philosophy, theology, political economy, sociology, and institutional economics continue to inform contemporary inquiry. In a period marked by widening inequality, technological disruption, migration, geopolitical fragmentation and climate instability, our field is uniquely positioned to reassert ethical dimensions of economic analysis.
ASE is accepting proposals for papers/sessions at the 2027 ASSA Meetings to be held January 3-5, 2027 in Washington, DC. We welcome contributions that revisit foundational thinkers and traditions, trace cross-disciplinary influences, and propose new frameworks that integrate ethics and economics in analytically rigorous and socially responsive ways to shape more humane and institutionally grounded economic futures. While we will give preference to papers that address the unifying premise outlined here, we also welcome researchers to submit proposals keeping with the following additional broad themes:
- the reciprocal relationship between resource distributions and questions of human dignity, ethical values, and social philosophy.
- the ethical presuppositions and implications of economic analysis including those of economic theory, methods, and the use of data.
- the assessment of how different religious and nonreligious traditions define and understand intersections of ethics and economics.
- identity-group stratification related to economic and ethical matters.
- other personal and social dimensions of economic challenges.
- the formulation or evaluation of economic policies consistent with concern for individual and collective betterment.
- global economic interactions with a focus on distribution within and across regions and nations.
In the case of individual papers, sessions will be assembled around synergies between ideas and/or methods and may include counterpoints to encourage discussion. Submissions of panels (entire sessions) should include four to five presenters. We particularly welcome and encourage junior scholars and graduate students from around the world to submit proposals. Nonmembers at the time of submission must become ASE members before the start of the ASSA Meetings if they are selected for presentation.
Presented papers at ASSA are eligible to be considered for the Warren Samuel Prize (Warren Samuels Prize | The Association for Social Economics)
Due to limited session slots, we are unlikely to be able to accept all submissions. Papers and sessions not accepted for the ASE program may be considered for the ASE portion of the ICAPE conference, typically held in the days following the ASSA meetings.
Following the conference, we encourage authors to submit their revised papers to one of the association’s journals, Forum for Social Economics or Review of Social Economy.
Please use the form at https://forms.gle/dWvH1iaGX2K5vZEw8 to submit your proposal by May 1, 2026. Specific questions can be addressed to Anita Alves Pena at