The Alexander Gerschenkron Prize

Best Dissertation in Non-U.S. or Canadian Economic History

 

1997

Timothy Leunig

Oxford University

The Myth of the Corporate Economy: Factor Cost, Industrial Structure and Technological Choice in the Lancashire and New England Cotton Industries, 1900-1913

1996

Hans-Joachim Voth

Oxford University

Time Use in Eighteenth Century London

1995

William Summerhill III

Stanford University

Railroads and the Brazilian Economy before 1914

1994

Va Nee L. Van Vleck

University of Iowa

Reassessing Technological Backwardness: Absolving the 'Silly Little Bobtailed' Coal Car

1993

Chi-Kong Lai

University of California at Davis

China's First Modern Corporation and the State: Officials, Merchants and Resource Allocation in the China Merchant's Steam Navigation Company, 1872-1902

and

Alan Taylor

Harvard University

Argentine Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective

1992

Alan Dye

University of Illinois

Tropical Technology and Mass Production: The Expansion of Cuban Central Sugar Mills, 1899-1929

1991

Douglas Puffert

Stanford University

The Economics of Spatial Network Externalities and the Dynamics of Railway Gauge Standardization

1990

Avner Greif

Northwestern University

The Organization of Long-distance Trade: Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

1989

Jean Laurent Rosenthal

California Institute of Technology

The Fruits of Revolution: Property Rights, Litigation and French Agriculture, 1700-1860

1988

Timothy Guinnane

Stanford University

Migration, Marriage, and Household Formation: The Irish at the Turn of the Century

1987

Judith Miller

Duke University

The Pragmatic Economy: Liberal Reforms and the Grain Trade in Upper Normandy, 1750-1789

1986

Martha Shiells

University of Michigan

Hours of Work and Shiftwork in Early Industrial Labor Markets of Great Britain, the United States, and Japan

1985

Mary MacKinnon

Oxford University

Poverty and Policy: The English Poor Law, 1860-1910

1984

Mark Thomas

Oxford University

An Input-Output Approach to the British Economy, 1890-1914