Publication Awards
Publication Awards
Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize
The Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize is awarded every other year for an Outstanding Book on North American Economic History.
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: January 15, 2026
The Alice Hanson Jones Prize for an outstanding book in North American (including Caribbean) economic history will be presented at the Association’s annual meeting in September of 2026. This $1,200 prize is awarded biennially and alternates with the Gyorgi Ranki Prize for a book in European economic history.
Eligibility and Nominations:
- Only books published in English during 2024 or 2025 are eligible for the 2026 prize.
- The author need not be a member of the Association.
- Authors, publishers, or anyone else may nominate books.
- Authors or publishers should send a copy of the book, plus a curriculum vitae of the author(s), with current information on addresses and telephone numbers, to each member of the committee.
Committee Chair:
Alan Dye
Department of Economics
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
adye@barnard.edu
Other Committee Members:
Katherine Eriksson
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
1 Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616
kaeriksson@ucdavis.edu
Taylor Jaworski
University of Colorado at Boulder
Economics Building, 256 UCB
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0256
tjaworski@gmail.com
Jonathan Rose
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
230 S LaSalle St
Chicago, IL 60604
jonathan.rose@chi.frb.org
John Parman
jmparman@wm.edu
Congratulations to the 2024 Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize Winner
Richard N. Langlois, for the book: The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: the History of American Business Enterprise. Princeton University Press, 2023.
Alice Hanson Jones Prize Past Recipients
| YEAR | RECIPIENT | TITLE | PUBLICATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Richard Langlois | The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: the History of American Business Enterprise | Princeton University Press, 2023 |
| 2022 | Robert Gallman and Paul Rhode | Capital in the Nineteenth Century | Chicago University Press, 2019 |
| Zorina Khan | Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy | Oxford University Press, 2020 | |
| 2020 | Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes | The Train and the Telegraph: A Revisionist History | Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. |
| 2018 | Leah Platt Boustan | Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets | Princeton University Press |
| Douglas Irwin | Clashing Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy | University of Chicago Press | |
| 2016 | Barry Eichengreen | Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History | Oxford University Press 2015 |
| 2014 | Gavin Wright | Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South | Harvard University Press, 2013 |
| 2012 | Alexander J. Field | A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and US Economic Growth | Yale University Press, 2011 |
| 2010 | Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode | Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development | Cambridge University Press, 2008 |
| 2008 | Carlos Marichal | Bankruptcy of Empire: Mexican Silver and the Wars between Spain, Britain, and France, 1760-1810 | Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
| 2006 | B. Zorina Khan | The Democratization of Invention; Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790 ? 1920 | Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
| Werner Troesken | Water, Race and Disease | The MIT Press, 2004 | |
| 2004 | Allan H. Meltzer | A History of the Federal Reserve | University of Chicago Press, 2004 |
| 2002 | Gloria Main | People of a Spacious Land | Harvard University Press, 2001 |
| 2000 | Dora Costa | The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990 | Chicago UP, 1998 |
| 1998 | Lance Davis, Robert Gallman, and Karen Gleiter | Pursuit of Leviathan |