Recent Prize winners

List of Award Recipients

Best PhD Dissertation Prize

YEAR	AUTHOR	THESIS TITLE	SUPERVISOR	INSTITUTION
2024	Mathew Frith	American Protectionist Thought: The Economic Philosophy and Theory of the 19th Century American Protectionists	Jerry Courvisanos, Alex Millmow, and Jeremy Smith	Federation University Australia

2022	Riko Stevens	The Theory of Speculation in the Marshallian Tradition: Marshall, Pigou, Lavington, and Keynes on the Microeconomics of Speculation	Michael McLure	University of Western Australia

2017	Karen Knight	A. C. Pigou and the Marshallian 'thought' style	Rabindra Ghosh, and Michael McLure	University of Western Australia

2013*	Edward Mariyani Squire	Opacity and Rhetoric	Dick Bryan and Evan Jones (University of Sydney)	University of Western Sydney
	Arnaldo Barone	Veblen and the Public Support of the Arts	John E. King (La Trobe University)	Victoria University

2011	Neil Hart	Marshall’s Equilibrium and Evolution: Then and Now	Peter Kriesler	University of New South Wales

2008	Kerrie Louise Mitchener	Preference and Utility in Economic Theory and the History of Economic Thought	Ghanshyam Mehta	University of Queensland

2005	Alex Millmow	The Power of Economic Ideas: The Origins of Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia	Selwyn Cornish	Australian National University

*Two Best PhD Dessertation Prizes were awarded for 2013.

Best Masters and Honours Thesis Prizes

YEAR	AUTHOR	THESIS TITLE	SUPERVISOR	INSTITUTION
2017	Riko Stevens	The Theory of Speculation in the History of Economic Thought: The Contributions of Adam Smith. J.S.Mill and Alfred Marshall Revisited (Masters Thesis)	Anthony Endres	University of Auckland
2013	Philip Metaxas	Australia’s Contribution to International Trade Theory; The Dependent Economy Model (Honours Thesis)	Jurg Weber	University of Western Australia
2009	Lisa Meehan	Heisenbergian Uncertainty in Economics: An Ontological Perspective (Masters Thesis)	Anthony Endres	University of Auckland

P. D. Groenewegen Prize (Best Journal Article)

YEAR	AUTHOR	ARTICLE
2017	Christian Gehrke	Georg von Charasoff: A Neglected Contributor to the Classical-Marxian Tradition. History of Economics Review, 62 (1), 1–37.

2015*	Susan Howson	The Uses of Biography and the History of Economics. History of Economics Review, 57(1), 1–15.
	Stephen Medema	The Coase Theorem Down Under: Revisiting the Economic Record Controversy. History of Economics Review, 59(1), 1–19

2013	Alex Millmow	Colin Clark and Australia. History of Economics Review, 56(1), 56–70.

2011	Gregory C.G. Moore	Placing Donald Winch in Context: An Essay on Wealth and Life. History of Economics Review, 52(1), 77–108

2009	John E. King	Not the Devil’s Decade: Nicholas Kaldor in the 1930s. History of Economics Review, 46(1), 39–61

2007	M. V. White	Cultivated Circles of The Empire: Bibliographical Notes on W.S. Jevons’s Antipodean Interlude (1854 -1859). History of Economics Review, 43(1), 101–122

2005	Alex Millmow	The Power of Economic Ideas: Australian Economists in the Thirties. History of Economics Review, 37(1), 84–99

*There were two joint winners for 2015 determined by preferential voting of the editorial board.

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