Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize
The Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize is awarded every other year for an Outstanding Book on the Economic History of Europe
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: March 1, 2009
The Ranki Prize was established by the Economic History Association in 1989 to honor the late Gyorgy Ranki, a distinguished Hungarian economic historian who taught in both Hungary and the United States. The Ranki Prize is awarded biennially for an outstanding book in European economic history and is in the amount of $1,200. It alternates with the Alice Hanson Jones Prize for a book in North American (including Caribbean) economic history.
The tenth Ranki Prize will be awarded in September 2009 for a book published in 2007 or 2008.
To be eligible, a book must be published in English and must, in whole or in substantial part, treat aspects of European economic history in any period from classical antiquity to the present. For purposes of this prize, Europe is understood to include European Russia as well as the British Isles. Books that compare European experience to that of other parts of the world, or that use historical information to examine present or anticipate future issues and trends, are also eligible as long as they pay significant attention to European economic history.
Nominations for the prize may be made by authors, publishers, or anyone else. Authors of nominated books need not be members of the Economic History Association. Date of publication rather than date of copyright determines eligibility. Translations of books published previously in a language other than English are eligible in the year of publication in English.
Whoever nominates a book should send a copy of the book and the curriculum vitae of the author(s) to each of the five members of the Ranki Prize committee.
For the 2009 award, the chair of the committee will be Professor Philip Hoffman:
Professor Philip T. Hoffman
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 22877
California Institute of Technology
115 Baxter Hall
Pasadena, CA 91125
email: pth@hss.caltech.eduOther members of the committee will include
Professor Robert Margo
Department of Economics
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215
email: margora@bu.edu
Professor Simone A. Wegge
Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy
College of Staten Island
2800 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island, New York 10314
email: wegge@postbox.csi.cuny.eduProfessor George Grantham
Department of Economics
McGill University
Room 443, Leacock Building, 855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7
email: george.grantham@staff.mcgill.caProfessor Joerg Baten
Department of Economics
University of Tuebingen
Mohlstrasse 36
Tuebingen D-72074 GERMANY
email: joerg.baten@uni-tuebingen.de