Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize

The Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize is awarded every other year for an Outstanding Book on the Economic History of Europe

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: March 1, 2013

The Ranki Prize was established by the Economic History Association in 1989 to honor the late Gyorgy Ranki, a distinguished Hungarian economic historian who taught in both Hungary and the United States. The Ranki Prize is awarded biennially for an outstanding book in European economic history and is in the amount of $1,200. It alternates with the Alice Hanson Jones Prize for a book in North American (including Caribbean) economic history.

The tenth Ranki Prize will be awarded in September 2013 for a book published in 2011 or 2012

To be eligible, a book must be published in English and must, in whole or in substantial part, treat aspects of European economic history in any period from classical antiquity to the present. For purposes of this prize, Europe is understood to include European Russia as well as the British Isles. Books that compare European experience to that of other parts of the world, or that use historical information to examine present or anticipate future issues and trends, are also eligible as long as they pay significant attention to European economic history.

Nominations for the prize may be made by authors, publishers, or anyone else. Authors of nominated books need not be members of the Economic History Association. Date of publication rather than date of copyright determines eligibility. Translations of books published previously in a language other than English are eligible in the year of publication in English.

Whoever nominates a book should send a copy of the book and the curriculum vitae of the author(s) to each of the five members of the Ranki Prize committee.

For 2013, the chair of the committee is

Professor Joerg Baten
Chair of Economic History
Department of Economics
University of Tuebingen, and CESifo Research Network
Mohlstr. 36, D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany
Email: joerg.baten@uni-tuebingen.de

Other members of the committee include

Professor Bruce Carruthers
Department of Sociology
Northwsetern University
Evanston, IL 60208-1330 
email: b-carruthers@northwestern.edu

Professor Petra Moser
Department of Economics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
email:  pmoser@stanford.edu

Professor Joyce Burnette
Department of Economics
Wabash College
Crawfordsville, IN 47933
email: burnettj@wabash.edu

Jane Humphries
All Souls College
High Street
Oxford OX1 4AL
United Kingdom
email:  jane.humphries@all-souls.ox.ac.uk