In 1995 the Society established an annual award for the Craufurd Goodwin Best Article in the History of Economics during the previous publication year (named after Craufurd Goodwin in 2017). Beside the honor, the winner will receive a stipend of $500 plus travel expenses up to $1,000 to attend the 52nd annual conference of the History of Economics Society (June 2025 in Richmond, Virginia).
Eligibility: Any article in the history of economics published in English in the calendar year preceding the next Annual Meeting of the Society is eligible for the award. 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 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 of 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.
The members of the Selection Committee this year are Alain Marciano (Université de Montpelier, France), Katia Caldari (Università di Padova), and Gary Mongiovi (St John’s University).
Nominations (brief reasons), including a complete citation and pdf of the article, should be sent as soon as possible but no later than January 31, 2025 to the chair of the committee: alain.marciano@unito.it
Award Recipients
| 2024 | Margarita Fajardo | ‘CEPAL, the “International Monetary Fund of the Left”? The Tale of Two Global Institutions’ |
The American Historical Review 128(2): 588–615 |
| 2023 | Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak | “Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Development Economist” |
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 44, Issue 2, 2022 |
| 2022 | Constantinos Repapis | “W. Stark, J. M. Keynes, and the Mercantilists” |
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 43, Issue 1, 2021 |
| 2021 | Gábor István Bíró | “Michael Polanyi’s Neutral Keynesianism and the First Economics Film, 1933—1945” |
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 42, Issue 3, 2020 |
| 2020 | Robert Leonard | “E. F. Schumacher and the making of ´Buddhist Economics´, 1950-1973” |
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 41, Issue 2, June 2019 |
| 2019 | Jean-Baptiste Fleury and Alain Marciano | “The Making of a Constitutionalist: James Buchanan on Education” | History of Political Economy, Volume 50, Issue 3, 2018 |
| 2018 | Beatrice Cherrier | “Classifying Economics: A History of the JEL Codes” | Journal of Economic Literature 55 (2), 2017 |
| 2017 | Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak | “Trade, Money, and the Grievances of the Commonwealth: economic debates in England during the commercial crisis of the early 1620’s” | History of Economic Ideas (Vol. XXIV, no. 1, 2016) |
| 2016 | Bruce Caldwell and Leonidas Montes | “Friedrich Hayek and His Visits to Chile” | The Review of Austrian Economics (September 2015) |
| 2015 | Kevin Hoover | “On the Reception of Haavelmo’s Econometric Thought” | Journal of the History of Economic Thought (March 2014) |
| 2014 | Dotan Leshem | “Oikonomia Redefined” | Journal of the History of Economic Thought (March 2013) |
| 2013 | Till Düppe | “Arrow and Debreu De-homogenized” | Journal of the History of Economic Thought (December 2012) |
| 2012 | Perry Mehrling | “The Monetary Economics of Benjamin Graham:A Bridge Between Goods and Money?” | Journal of the History of Economic Thought (September 2011) |
| 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, vol. 28 part 1) |
| 2010 | H. Spencer Banzhaf | “Objective or Multi-Objective? Two Historically Competing Visions for Benefit Cost Analysis” | Land Economics (February 2009) |
| 2009 | Manuela Mosca | “On the Origins of the Concept of Natural Monopoly” | European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (May 2008) |
| 2008 | Ivan Moscati | “Early Experiments in Consumer Demand Theory: 1930-1970 “ | History of Political Economy (Fall 2007) |
| 2007 | Mauro Boianovsky | “The Making of Chapters 13 and 14 of Patinkin’s Money, Interest, and Prices “ | History of Political Economy (Summer 2006) |
| 2006 | Carl Wennerlind | “David Hume’s Monetary Theory Revisited: Was He Really a Quantity Theorist and an Inflationist?” | Journal of Political Economy (February 2005) |
| 2005 | Michael V. White | “In the Lobby of the Energy Hotel: Jevons’s Formulation of the Postclassical “Economic Problem”” | History of Political Economy (May 2004) |
| 2004 | Loïc Charles | “The Visual History of the Tableau Economique“ | European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (Fall 2003) |
| 2003 | Philippe Fontaine | “Blood, Politics, and Social Science: Richard Titmuss and the Institute of Economic Affairs, 1957-1973” | Isis (September 2002) |
| 2002 | David M. Levy | “How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Debating Racial Quackery” | Journal of the History of Economic Thought (March 2001) |
| 2001 | Samuel Hollander | “Sraffa and the Interpretation of Ricardo: The Marxian Dimension” | History of Political Economy (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 (Autumn 1999) |
| 1999 | Mauro Boianovsky | “Wicksell on Deflation in the Early 1920s” | History of Political Economy (Summer 1998) |
| 1998 | Craufurd Goodwin and Alex Rogers | “Cyberpunk and Chicago” | The State of the History of Economic Thought edited by James Henderson (Routledge, 1997) |
| 1997 | William Coleman | “How Theory Came to English Classical Economics” | Scottish Journal of Political Economy (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 (June 1995) |
| 1995 | Maria Cristina Marcuzzo | “At the Origin of Imperfect Competition: Different Views?” | Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought edited by Karen Vaughn (Edward Elgar, 1994) |