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The Royal Economic Society (RES) is a professional association which promotes the study of economic science in academia, government service, banking, industry and public affairs. Originally established in 1890 as the British Economic Association, it was incorporated by Royal Charter on December 2, 1902. The society is a charity registered with the UK Charity Commission under charity number 231508.〔(Charity Commission Search ) Charity Commission Website. Retrieved 17 June 2013.〕 The RES has two publications produced by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing: ''The Economic Journal'', first published in 1891, and ''The Econometrics Journal'', first published in 1998. Both journals are available online through the RES website.〔(Home ) RES Website. Retrieved 6 June 2013.〕 In addition, the RES supports a number of committees including the Women’s Committee and the Conference of Heads of University Departments of Economics (CHUDE). The society also hosts an annual conference.〔(RES Annual Conference ) RES Website. Retrieved 6 June 2013.〕 Today, the society is managed by an executive committee, who is responsible for developing and executing the society's policies and activities. The committee is consisted of leading economists from across the U.K., currently (2013-2015) presided by Charlie Bean. The incoming president (2015-2017) is John Hardman Moore. == History of the Royal Economic Society == The foundation of the British Economic Association was a response to changing attitudes towards economics in the 1880s. The study of economics had commonly been taught as part of a broad curriculum including subjects such as history and philosophy.〔Alon Kadish and Richard D. Freeman, ‘Foundation and Early Years’, in ''A Century of Economics: 100 Years of the Royal Economic Society and the Economic Journal'', John D. Hey and Donald Winch (eds), (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), p.22-24〕 Those engaged in the study of economics came from a number of professions and academic disciplines. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, there was an academic movement towards the clear demarcation and definition of economics as a scholarly subject. Economic thinkers followed the example of their counterparts in history and philosophy, who also sought to define and differentiate their disciplines at this time, inaugurating such journals as the English Historical Review(1886) and Mind (1887).〔 The same period saw the revival of fundamentalist socialist attacks on economics. In order to protect the discipline from damaging criticism, while still encouraging intellectual discussion, many economic thinkers strove to draw economics more decidedly within the realm of scholarly debate.〔 The establishment of an economic society in this era of change indicates a desire to strengthen economics as a well respected academic discipline and to encourage debate and research amongst specialist scholars. Indeed, in an announcement to the American Economic Association dated 1887 proposing the formation of an Economic Society in Britain, scholars acknowledged the disunity and criticism of economics, calling for a society that would ‘aim at the advancement of theory, at the consolidation of economic opinion, at the encouragement of historical research and at the criticism of industrial and financial policy’.〔Herbert Somerton Foxwell, "The Economic Movement in England", ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 2 (1887), p.103〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Royal Economic Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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