ECONOMICS & SOCIETY

About the Economic Society of Singapore

The Economic Society of Singapore (ESS), formerly the Malayan Economic Society, was established on 28 July 1956, as a result of an initiative by graduates and staff from the Department of Economics from the then University of Malaya in Singapore.

On 28 March 1969, the Society changed its name from the Malayan Economic Society to the Economic Society of Singapore, in response to the new independent and sovereign status of the Republic.

Since 1976, the Society has been one of the founding members of the Federation of ASEAN Economic Association (FAEA). The Society published a journal, the Malayan Economic Review (MER), which was later renamed the Singapore Economic Review (SER) in 1969. The SER is now regarded as the leading journal in the Asia Pacific and it is in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) indexed journal.

Today, ESS has expanded to include members from the academic, government and business sectors. The Society organizes conferences and networking sessions to foster discussions of current economic issues relating to Singapore and the region.

From the Editors

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Call for Articles

Invitation to Contribute to the Next Issue of Economics & Society

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Economic Society of Singapore’s (ESS) establishment of the Outstanding Economics Teachers Award (OETA), the theme of the next issue is Man & Education. The editorial team would like to invite members of the academia, industry, and government to contribute articles to this next issue.

All topic areas at the nexus of Economics and education (including but not limited to the returns on education, the role of education in improving social mobility, the future of Economics education) are of interest and in scope.

Please contact the following members of the editorial team with your topic of interest via email and we will follow up with you. Thank you.

Members of the editorial team to contact:
• Chua Yeow Hwee
• Christabelle Soh
• Melvin Koh