Draft:Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

Introduction

The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics was founded 1989 by Amitai Etzioni. It is now an international, interdisciplinary organization with members in over 50 countries on five continents. The academic disciplines represented in SASE include sociology, economics, political science, organization studies, political economy, management, psychology, law, history, and philosophy. It has held conferences annually since its founding.

SASE is the co-owner (with Oxford University Press) and founder of the Socio-Economic Review (SER), published since 2003.

History

1989

Conference on Socio-Economics - Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 31 March-2 April 1989

President: Amitai Etzioni

Vice-Presidents: Paul Lawrence and Michael Useem

1990

The Second Annual International Conference on Socio-Economics - George Washington University, 16-18 March 1990

President: Daniel Yankelovich

Vice-President: Jane Mansbridge

President-Elect: David Sears

The Responsive Community began publication in 1990, edited by Amitai Etzioni.

On May 30, 1990, SASE was incorporated as a non-profit organization .

1991

SASE’s Third Annual Conference in collaboration with the IAREP at the Stockholm School of Economics, June 1991

SASE President: David Sears

The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics by founding SASE president Amitai Etzioni became available in paperback.

The first issue of the Journal of Socio-Economics, edited by Richard Hattwick, the first official journal of SASE, was published in the spring of 1991 (this was formerly the Journal of Behavioral Economics). The second issue was published the following winter.

1992

SASE’s Fourth Annual Conference at the University of California, Irvine, 27-29 March 1992

1993

SASE’s Fifth Annual Conference at the New School for Social Research

Theme: Incentives and Values as Foundations of Social Order.

SASE President: Jane Mansbridge

Featured Speakers: John Kenneth Galbraith and Robert Heilbroner

1994

SASE’s Sixth Annual Conference at the HEC Paris, 15-17 July 1994

SASE President: William Frederick

1995

SASE’s Seventh International Conference at Georgetown University,7-9 April 1995

Theme: Exploring How and Why Economics, Ethics, and Ethnicity (or other forms of social identity) are interrelated.

SASE President: Nancy DiTomaso

1996

SASE’s Eighth International Conference at the Université de Genève, 12-14 July 1996

Theme: The Socio-Economic Foundations of a Just Society

SASE President: Barbara Bergmann

1997

SASE’s Ninth International Conference at the Université de Montréal, 5-7 July 1997

SASE President: Rogers Hollingsworth

1998

SASE’s Tenth Annual Meeting in Vienna, Austria, 13-16 July 1998

Theme: Challenges for the Future: Structural Changes and Transformations in Contemporary Societies

SASE President: Jerald Hage

The original networks were:

Network A: Communitarian Ideals and Civil Society

Network B: Development, Social Change, and Governance

Network C: Gender, Work, and Family

Network D: Globalization and Local Socio-Economic Development Network E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Network F: Knowledge, Economy, and Society

Network G: Labor Markets, Education, and Human Resources

Network H: Markets and Institutions

1999

SASE’s Eleventh Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin

Theme: Globalization and the Good Society

SASE President: Wolfgang Streeck

2000

SASE’s Twelfth Annual Meeting at the London School of Economics, 7-10 July 2000

Theme: Citizenship and Exclusion

SASE President: Richard Whitley

2001

2001 SASE’s Thirteenth Annual Meeting at the University of Amsterdam, 28 June-1 July 2001

Theme: Knowledge: The New Wealth of Nations?

SASE President: Robin Stryker

2002

SASE’s Fourteenth Annual Meeting at the University of Minnesota, 27-30 June 2002

Theme: Work and Labor in the Global Economy

SASE President: Marino Regini

2003

SASE’s Fifteenth Annual Meeting

SASE President: David Marsden

2004

SASE’s Sixteenth Annual Meeting at George Washington University (co-sponsor: The Communitarian Network), 8-11 July 2004

Theme: Private Powers and Public Domains: Redefining Relations among States, Markets, and Societies.

SASE President: Colin Crouch

2005

SASE’s Seventeenth Annual Meeting in Budapest, Hungary, 30 June-2 July 2005

Theme: What Counts? Calculation. Representation. Association.

SASE President: David Stark

2006

SASE’s 18th Annual Meeting at the University of Trier, 30 June-2 July 2006

Theme: Globalization: Actors, Arenas, and Outcomes

SASE President: Christel Lane    

2007

SASE’s 19th Annual Meeting at the Copenhagen Business School, 28-30 June 2007

Theme: Changing Political Economies: Macro Trends and Micro Experiments.

SASE President: Ida Regalia

2008

SASE’s 20th Annual Meeting at the Universidad de Costa Rica, 21-23 July 2008

Theme: Economic Flexibility and Social Stability in the Age of Globalization.

SASE President: Michael Piore

Featured speakers: Oscar Arias Sanchez, Arlie Hochschild, Eduardo Lizano, José Antonio Ocampo, Alejandro Portes, Michael Storper

2009

SASE’s 21st Annual Meeting at Sciences Po-Paris, 16-18 July 2009

Theme: Capitalism in Crisis: What Next? Economic Regulation and Social Solidarity after the Fall of Finance Capitalism

SASE President: Kathleen Thelen

Featured speakers: Robert Boyer, Neil Fligstein, Kellee S. Tsai, Philippe Steiner

2010

SASE’s 22nd Annual Meeting at Temple University, 24-26 June 2010

Theme: Governance Across Borders: Coordination, Regulation, and Contestation in the Global Economy

SASE President: Jonathan Zeitlin

Featured speakers: Eric Helleiner, Saskia Sassen, Donald MacKenzie, Richard Higgott

2011

SASE’s 23rd Annual Conference at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 23-25 June 2011

Theme: Transformations of Contemporary Capitalism: Actors, Institutions, Processes

SASE President: Jonathan Zeitlin

Featured speakers: Maria Angeles Duran, Luciano Coutinho, Jens Beckert, Karin Knorr Cetina, Charles Sabel

2012

SASE’s 24th Annual Meeting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 28-30 June 2012

Theme: Global Shifts: Implications for Business, Government, and Labor.

SASE President: Mari Sako

Featured speakers: Masahiko Aoki, Suzanne Berger, Colin Crouch, Thomas Anton Kochan, Michèle Lamont

2013

SASE’s 25th Annual Conference at the Università degli Studi di Milano, 27-29 June 2013

Theme: States in Crisis

SASE President: Patrick Le Galès

Featured speakers: Jeremy Adelman, Larry Bartels, Frank Dobbin, Chiara Saraceno

SASE’s 1st Ibero-American Regional Meeting at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, 4-6 December 2013

Theme: Democracy and Economic Crisis in Ibero-America

2014

SASE’s 26th Annual Meeting at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, 10-12 July 2014

Theme: The Institutional Foundations of Capitalism

SASE President: Bruce Carruthers

Featured speakers: Julia Black, Katharina Pistor, Woody Powell, Luigi Zingales

2015

SASE’s 27th Annual Meeting at the London School of Economics, 2-4 July 2015

Theme: Inequality in the 21st Century

SASE President: Glenn Morgan

Featured speakers: Nancy DiTomaso, Mariana Mazzucato, Colin Crouch, Steven Machin

Plenary Panelists: Tom Clark, Mike Savage, and Andrew Sayer; Woody Powell, Nina Bandelj, Nitsan Chorev, Michael Reed, Andrew Schrank, and Marion Fourcade; Craig Calhoun, Amitai Etzioni, Polly Toynbee, and Wolfgang Streeck

SASE’s 2nd Ibero-American Regional Meeting at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 19-21 November 2015

Theme: State, Society and Market: Ibero-America in the 21st Century

2016

SASE’s 28th Annual Meeting at the University of California at Berkeley, 24-26 June 2016

Theme: Moral Economies, Economic Moralities

SASE President: Marion Fourcade

Featured speakers: Paul Pierson, Ananya Roy, Joshua Cohen

Plenary panelists: Maciej Ceglowski, Kieran Healy, Stuart Russell, and AnnaLee Saxenian

2017

SASE’s 29th Annual Meeting at the Université de Lyon, 29 June - 1 July 2017

Theme: What’s Next: Disruptive/Collaborative Economy or Business as Usual?

SASE President: Christine Musselin

Featured speakers: Yochai Benkler, Tim Jordan, Helen Nissenbaum, Juliet Schor

SASE’s 3rd Ibero-American Regional Meeting at the Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, 16-18 November 2017

Theme: Society, Culture, and Sustainable Development in Ibero-America

Featured speakers: Alberto Abello Vives, María Ángeles Duran, Michael Piore, Eduardo Posada-Carbó, Josep Borrell

2018

SASE’s 30th Annual Meeting at Doshisha University, Japan, 23-25 June 2018

Theme: Global Reordering: Prospects for Equality, Democracy, and Justice

SASE President: Gary Herrigel

Featured speakers: Ching Kwan Lee, Emiko Ochiai, Christine Parker, Wang Hui

This conference marked the introduction of Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism and Network J: Digital Economy

2019

SASE’s 31st Annual Meeting at The New School for Social Research, 27-29 June 2019

Theme: Fathomless Futures: Algorithmic and Imagined

SASE President: Akos Rona-Tas

Featured speakers: Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic, Virginia Eubanks, Jonathan Haskel, Nancy Fraser, Cathy O’Neil

This conference marked the introduction of Network R: Islamic Moral Economy and Finance

SASE’s 4th Ibero-American Regional Meeting at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, 20-22 November 2019

Theme: Productive Transformation, Regional Asymmetries, and Social Exclusion in Ibero-America

Featured speakers: Enrique Dussel, Rebeca Grynspan, Akos Rona-Tas, Santos Ruesga

2020

SASE’s 32nd Annual Meeting - Virtual Conference - 18-20 July 2020

Theme: Development Today: Accumulation, Surveillance, Redistribution

SASE President: Nitsan Chorev

Featured speakers: Ruha Benjamin, Stephanie Barrientos, Guy Standing, Xiao Qiang

2021

SASE’s 33rd Annual Meeting - Virtual Conference (hosted by the University of Duisburg-Essen) - 2-5 June 2021

Theme: After Covid? Critical Conjunctures and Contingent Pathways of Contemporary Capitalism

SASE President: Sigrid Quack

Featured speakers: Alexander Kentikelenis, Hartmut Rosa, Stephanie Kelton, Jane Mansbridge, Nancy Folbre

SASE’s 5th Ibero-American Regional Meeting – Virtual (hosted by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos) - 1-3 December 2021

Theme: Climate Change, Social Inequality and Health Crisis in Ibero-America Countries

Featured speakers: Rolando Cordera Campos, Ricardo Ffrench-Davis, Félix Jimenez, Amy C. Offner, Daniela Magalhães Prates

2022

SASE’s 34th Annual Meeting at the University of Amsterdam, 9-11 July 2022

Theme: Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control

SASE President: Jacqueline O’Reilly

Featured speakers: Mark Stuart & Vera Trappmann, Nandita Sharma, Alice Mah & Joana Setzer, Sharon Dodua Otoo (book reading)

2023

SASE's 35th Annual Meeting at the Windsor Florida Hotel, hosted by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20-22 July 2023

Theme: Socio-Economics in a Transitioning World: Breaking Lines and Alternative Paradigms for a New World Order

SASE President: Santos Ruesga

Featured Speakers: Naila Kabeer, Esther Dweck, Thea Riofrancos, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

2024

SASE's 26th Annual Meeting at the University of Limerick, Ireland, 27-29 June 2024.

Theme: For Dignified and Sustainable Economic Lives: Disrupting the Emotions, Politics, and Technologies of Neoliberalism

SASE President: Nina Bandelj

Featured speakers: Tressie McMillan Cottom, Paul Pierson, Corina Rodriguez Enriquez, Isabella Weber.

References

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics website: https://sase.org/