1930年由由耶鲁大学经济学家欧文·费舍尔和挪威经济学家拉格纳·弗里希发起，是全球规模最大、水平最高、促进经济理论在统计学和数学方面发展的国际经济学会，聚集全球范围内最顶尖的经济学家。每5年召开一次世界大会，在各个地区召开经常性的学术会议，出版《计量经济学》《数量经济学》《理论经济学》和其他相关研究专著。学会以逻辑结构严谨的科学研究方法，促进理论经济学和实证经济学的结合联系，从而推动整个领域的学术进步。

Founded in 1930 by Yale university economist Owen Fisher and Norwegian economist Ragnar Frich, it is the world's largest and highest-level international economic association for the development of economic theory in statistics and mathematics, bringing together the world's top economists. The World Congress is held every 5 years, regular academic conferences are held in various regions, and econometrics, quantitative economics, theoretical economics and other related research monographs are published. The Society promotes the combination of theoretical economics and empirical economics with rigorous scientific research methods with logical structure, so as to promote academic progress in the entire field.