Best Book & Blanqui Lectures
The BEST MONOGRAPH AWARD is for the best book (not necessarily written in English) in the history of economic thought published during 2024 or 2025. The author can be from any part of the world. The winner will be invited to attend the Society Conference that follows the announcement of the prize to deliver the Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui Lecture. Note that, in supplement, the Council can also give a BEST SCHOLARLY EDITION AWARD.
The Blanqui lecture is named in honor of Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, author of Histoire de l'économie politique en Europe depuis les anciens jusqu'à nos jours (Paris, Guillaumin, 1837), which may be regarded as the first textbook published on the history of economic thought.
Winner of the 2026 Edition
Robert YEE
The City’s Defense: The Bank of England and the Remaking of Economic Governance, 1914-1939
Cambridge University Press, 2025 (webpage)
Past Editions
2025
2024Albert O Hirschman, The Postwar Economic Order
Michele ALACEVICH and Pier Francesco ASSO
Columbia University Press, 2022
2023Keith TRIBE
Constructing Economic science: The invention of a Discipline, 1850-1950
Oxford Studies in the History of Economics, 2021
2021
Caroline OUDIN-BASTIDE and Philippe STEINER
Calculation and Morality: The Costs of Slavery and the Value of Emancipation in the French Antilles
Oxford University Press, 2019
2020
Pierre DOCKÈS
Le Capitalisme et ses rythmes
Classiques Garnier, 2019
2019
Arnaud ORAIN
La politique du merveilleux. Une autre histoire du Système de Law
Fayard, 2018
2018
Andrej SVORENCÍK and Harro MAAS
The Making of Experimental Economics: Witness Seminar of the Emergence of a Field
Springer, 2016
2018 Best Scholarly edition
Jean-Claude-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi, Oeuvres économiques complètes
Pascal BRIDEL, Francesca DAL DEGAN and Nicolas EYGUESIER
Economica, 2017
2017
Philippe STEINER
Donner… Une histoire de l’altruisme
Presses Universitaires de France, 2016
2016
François ALLISSON
Value and Prices in Russian Economic Thought. A journey inside de Russian synthesis, 1890-1920
Routledge, 2015
2015
Sergio CREMASCHI
Utilitarianism and Malthus's Virtue Ethics. Respectable, virtuous and happy
Routledge, 2014
2014
Roger BACKHOUSE and Mauro BOIANOVSKY
Transforming Modern Macroeconomics. Exploring Disequilibrium microfoundations, 1956-2003
Cambridge University Press, 2013
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2014 Best scholarly edition
The Bretton Woods Transcripts
Kurt SCHULER and Andrew ROSENBERG
Center for Financial Stability, 2012
2013
Malcolm RUTHERFORD
The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947: Science and Social Control
Cambridge University Press, 2011
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Mary MORGAN
The World in the Model: How Economists Work and Think
Cambridge University Press, 2012
2013 Best scholarly edition
Henri Saint-Simon. Œuvres complètes. Introduction, notes et commentaires par Juliette Grange, Pierre Musso, Philippe Régnier et Frank Yonnet
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de France, 2012. 4 volumes. ISBN 978-2-13-056622-9
2012
Author: Arie Arnon
Title: Monetary Theory and Policy from Hume and Smith to Wicksell: Money, Credit and the Economy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Blanqui lecture: "Back to Henry Thornton and Some of his Famous Readers: The Role of Gold in Classical Monetary Doctrine"
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2011
Author: Simon Cook
Title: The Intellectual Foundations of Alfred Marshall’s Economic Science. A Rounded Globe of Knowledge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Blanqui lecture: "Race and Nation in Marshall's Histories"
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2011 Best Scholarly Edition
Title: Jules Dupuit, Œuvres économiques complètes
Editors: Yves Breton and Gérard Klotz
Publisher: Economica, 2009
2010
Author: Steven Medema
Title: The Hesitant Hand. Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas
Publishers: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Blanqui Lecture: "Textbooks as Data for the Study of the History of Economics"
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2009
Author: Pedro Teixeira
Title: Jacob Mincer. A Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics
publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007
Blanqui lecture: "The or A? Placing Jacob Mincer in the History of (Labour) Economics"
2008
Author: Giuseppe Bognetti, Angelo Moioli, Pier Luigi Porta, Giovanna Tonelli (eds.)
Title: Edizione Nationale delle opere di Pietro Verri, volume II, Scritti di Economia, Finanza e Amministrazione
publisher: Editioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2006
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2007
Author: Perry Mehrling
Title: Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance
publisher: John Wiley and Sons, 2005
2006
Author: Bruce Caldwell
Title: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek
publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2004
2005
Author: Roy Weintraub
Title: How Economics Became a Mathematical Science
publisher: Duke University Press, 2002
Blanqui lecture:
Economic Science Wars
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2004
Author: Nicola Giocoli
Title: Modeling Rational Agents: From Interwar Economics to Early Modern Game Theory
publisher: Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004
Blanqui lecture: In the sign of the axiomatic method: mathematics as the role model for neoclassical economics
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2003
Author: Joachim Zweynert
Title: Eine Geschichte des ökonomiscen Denkens in Russland. 1805-1905
publisher: Marburg: Metropolis, 2003
2002
Author: Alessandro Roncaglia
Title: La ricchezza delle idee
publisher: Bari: Laterza, 2002
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2001
Author: Dutot Charlers with Antoin Murphy
Title: Histoire du systeme de John Law (1716-1720)
publisher: Paris, I.N.E.D./P.U.F., 2000
2000
Author: Daniele Besomi
Title: The Making of Harrod's Dynamics
publisher: London: Macmillan, 1999
Blanqui lecture:
Harrod's Dynamics in its Making
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