Omicron Delta Epsilon
honor society
Omicron Delta Epsilon (ΟΔΕ or ODE) is an international honor society in the field of economics, formed from the merger of Omicron Delta Gamma and Omicron Chi Epsilon in 1963. ODE is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies. ODE has chartered more than 700 chapters worldwide. It publishes an academic journal The American Economist.
History
Predecessors
The first national honor society in economics, Omicron Delta Gamma, was formed on May 7, 1915, by the merger of Harvard University's Undergraduate Society of Economics with the University of Wisconsin's Order of Artus. Wisconsin's group was founded by Professor John R. Commons. Professor Frank W. Taussig founded the chapter at Harvard. The organization remained double named as the Omicron Delta Gamma and the Order of Artus through the merger.
Alan A. Brown was the founder and first president of Omicron Chi Epsilon in 1955, while a student at City College of New York. The first annual meeting of Omicron Chi Epsilon was held at Fordham University in New York City in the spring of 1958.
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