In 1995 the Society established an annual award for Best Article in the History of Economics during the previous publication year. Beside the honor, there is a stipend of $500 plus travel expenses up to $500 to attend the presentation at the Society's annual conference.

Eligibility: Any article in the history of economics or economic thought published in English in the calendar year preceding the next Annual Meeting of the Society is eligible (e.g. calendar year 2008 for Annual Meeting in June 2009). It is recognized however, that despite official publication dates, many publications are shipped after year end. In such cases, relevant articles that are in 'proof' form, with accompanying evidence of the journal and its year of publication, may be accepted at the discretion of the Chair of the committee.

Nomination process:
The Committee considers all nominated articles as well as all articles published in the Society's journal: Journal for the History of Economic Thought. The committee may not ask editors of journals for their nominations as editors, but editors may nominate in a personal capacity. Nomination of an article by its author is welcome.

2013	Till Düppe	"Arrow and Debreu De-homogenized"	Journal of the History of Economic Thought
2012	Perry Mehrling	"The Monetary Economics of Benjamin Graham:A Bridge Between Goods and Money?"	Journal of the History of Economic Thought
2011	Daniele Besomi	"'Periodic Crises': Clément Juglar between Theories of Crises and Theories of Business Cycles"	Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
2010	H. Spencer Banzhaf	"Objective or Multi-Objective? Two Historically Competing Visions for Benefit Cost Analysis"	Land Economics, 2009
2009	Manuela Mosca	"On the origins of the concept of natural monopoly"	The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought XV, 2008, n.2, pp. 317-353
2008	Ivan Moscati	"Early Experiments in Consumer Demand Theory: 1930-1970 "	History of Political Economy 39:3, 2007
2007	Mauro Boianovsky	" The Making of Chapters 13 and 14 of Patinkin's Money, Interest, and Prices "	History of Political Economy
2006	Carl Wennerlind	"David Hume's Monetary Theory Revisited: Was He Really a Quantity Theorist and an Inflationist?,"	The Journal of Political Economy vol. 113, 2005
2005	Michael V. White	"In the Lobby of the Energy Hotel: Jevons's Formulation of the Postclassical "Economic Problem""	History of Political Economy 36:2 (May 2004)
2004	Loic Charles	"The Visual History of the Tableau Economique"	European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 10:4 (Fall 2003)
2003	Philippe Fontaine	"Blood, Politics, and Social Science: Richard Titmuss and the Institute of Economic Affairs, 1957-1973"	Isis 93:3 (September 2002)
2002	David M. Levy	"How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Debating Racial Quackery"	Journal of the History of Economic Thought 23 (March 2001)
2001	Samuel Hollander	"Sraffa and the Interpretation of Ricardo: The Marxian Dimension"	History of Political Economy 32 (Summer 2000)
2000	Francisco Louçã	"The Econometric Challenge to Keynes: Arguments and Contradictions in the Early Debates about a Late Issue"	European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 6 (Autumn 1999)
1999	Mauro Boianovsky	"Wicksell on Deflation in the Early 1920s"	History of Political Economy 30 (Summer 1998)
1998	Craufurd Goodwin and Alex Rogers	"Cyberpunk and Chicago"	Perspectives in the History of Economic Thought 13, edited by James Henderson (Routledge, 1997)
1997	William Coleman	"How Theory Came to English Classical Economics"	Scottish Journal of Political Economy 43 (May 1996)
1996	Robert J. Leonard	"From Parlour Games to Social Science: von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory, 1928-1944"	Journal of Economic Literature 33 (June 1995)
1995	Maria Cristina Marcuzzo	"At the Origin of Imperfect Competition: Different Views?"	Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought 10, edited by Karen Vaughn (Edward Elgar, 1994)