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The Association Française de Science Economique (French Economic Association, AFSE) is the main learned society of economists in France. It was established in 1950. Its purpose is to bring together all economists in France, serving in academia, in the governement, or in the private sector. Its goal is to encourage the exchange of knowledge that specialization sometimes makes difficult.

More broadly, AFSE seeks to contribute to the advancement of research work in all fields of economic science, bringing together the multiplicity of skills and insights. It participates in their dissemination and recognition by organizing scientific events and awarding the Malinvaud Prize for the best article written by an economist under the age of 40.

AFSE publicizes the training courses in economics offered by universities in France at the graduate level. It awards the AFSE thesis prize and the AFSE prize for the best textbook.

Through its Job Market for the Employment of Economists, it actively participates in the placement of young economists in academia and in the private and public sectors.

In 2015, 600 so-called ``heterodox'' economists who felt they were not represented in the AFSE left it and established the  Association française d'économie politique, which the intention to welcome unorthodox economic points of view.