Recent Prize Winners

2005

Best doctoral dissertation

Alex Millmow ‘The Power of Economic Ideas: the origins of macroeconomic management in interwar Australia’.

Supervisor: Selwyn Cornish, Australian National University

Winner of the P.G. Groenewegen prize

‘The Power of Economic Ideas: Australian economists in the Thirties’ (published in the History of Economics Review No. 37, 2003.

2007

No prize awarded for postgraduate work

Winner of the P. G. Groenewegen prize

M.V. White ‘Cultural circles of the Empire: Bibliographical notes on W.S. Jevons’s Antipodean interlude, 1854-1859’, History of Economics Review. No. 43

2009

Best doctoral dissertation

Kerrie Louise Mitchener ‘Preference and Utility in Economic Theory and the History of Economic Thought’.

Supervisor:  Associate Professor Ghanshyam Mehta (now retired)

Best master’s thesis

Lisa Meehan ‘Heisenbergian uncertainty in Economics: an Ontological perspective’.

Supervisor: Tony Andres, University of Auckland

Winner of the P.G. Groenewegen prize

John E. King ‘Not the devils decade: Nicholas Kaldor in the 1930s” History of Economics Review No.46