The New International Encyclopædia/British Economic Association

BRITISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION. An association founded in London in 1890. mainly for the purpose of stimulating economic studies through the publication of a quarterly journal known as The Economic Journal, of which Prof. F. T. Edgeworth. D.C.L.. All Souls College. Oxford, and Mr. Henry Higgs, the secretary of the association, are editors. Mr. Goschen has been its president from the beginning, and it numbers among its vice-presidents Mr. Bryce. Mr. John Morley. Mr. Balfour, and others well known in public life. The Economic Journal is the foremost economic publication in scientific value in the British Empire and represents all shades of economic opinion. The association holds no regular scientific meetings, but gives an annual dinner in London, at which the near-by members come together.