The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) is a non-profit and
non-political professional organization incorporated in the state of Maryland in
1990. Affiliated with the American Economic Association and the Allied Social
Sciences Association of the United States, ASCE maintains professional contacts
with social scientists throughout the world who are interested in engaging in
scholarly discussion and research on Cuba and its comparative development.
Since the time of its founding, the primary mission of the organization is to study
the elements and processes involved in a transition to a free market democracy as
well as to promote scholarship, research, and publications on transition studies by
its members. This remains its basic charter and ASCE continues to pursue the
study of Cuba in a broad sense, with particular emphasis on the financial, economic,
social, legal and environmental aspects of Cuba today and its process of transition.
Every summer specialists on Cuba gather at the ASCE Annual Meeting. The next
ASCE's Annual Meeting will be August 1-3, 2002, at the Omni
Colonnade Hotel in Coral Gables, Florida. Please consult the following documents for
additional information on the Annual Meeting:
