Private Sponsors Accounting, Finance, and Economics

Association for Social Economics

Strives to reward and encourage scholarship in social economics.
William R. Waters Grant ($5,000): promotes research in social economics and the social economy. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the role of social values in economic life, economic policy and social wellbeing, social capital, social norms, social networks, human capabilities, workplace policies and social justice, corporate social responsibility, socially responsible investment, microfinance, ethics and economics, poverty, inequality, and policies related to health, education, and welfare.

Projects supported by the Foundation should:

Disseminate economic thinking and knowledge by all available means, to the end that greater happiness and prosperity may come to all through better economic understanding.
Produce materials, conduct seminars and workshops that promote discussions and assist in the development of greater economic literacy.
Promote the interchange of ideas and experiences among students of economic theory, those teaching it, and those engaged in solving practical economic problems in business and government.
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The grants program seeks innovative research that can make a profound contribution to the field of financial literacy.
Inquiries are encouraged from disciplines in fields as diverse as
- behavior
- marketing
- economics
- finance
- neuroscience
- education
- sociology
- change theory
- psychology
- decision sciences and others