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