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: March 1, 2024
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 2024. 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 2022 or 2023 are eligible for the 2024 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.
Selection Committee:
Professor Andrew A. Bossie
Department of Economics
New Jersey City University
262 22nd St
Brooklyn, NY 11215
andrew.a.bossie@gmail.com
Professor Ariell Zimran
Department of Economics
Vanderbilt University
VU Station B #351819
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37325
ariell.zimran@vanderbilt.edu
Professor Alan Dye
Department of Economics
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
adye@barnard.edu
Professor Taylor Jaworski                                    Department of Economics                                         University of Colorado Boulder                          tjaworski@gmail.com                           Â
Congratulations to the 2022 Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize Winner
Robert Gallman, Paul Rhode, and Zorina Khan shared the Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize for Outstanding Book in North American History.
Alison Hanson Jones Prize Past Recipients
| YEAR | RECIPIENT | INSTITUTION | TITLE | PUBLICATION |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Ð 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 |