Claim: The Association for Social Economics is a learned society in the broadly defined area of social economics founded in New York City in 1941 by  American Jesuits Thomas Divine("Interest, an historical and analytical study in economics and modern ethics") and Bernard William Dempsey("Interest and Usury" ).
Evidence: The Association for Social Economics (ASE), founded in New York City in 1941, is a learned society in the broadly defined area of social economics, and is part of the Allied Social Sciences Association. The association was founded as the Catholic Economic Association (CEA) by American Jesuits Thomas Divine and Bernard William Dempsey (1903–1960), who received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1940, and was a student of Joseph A. Schumpeter. Divine published "Interest, an historical and analytical study in economics and modern ethics" in 1959. Dempsey published "Interest and Usury" in 1943.