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.

The BEST MONOGRAPH AWARD is for the best book (not necessarily written in English) in the history of economic thought published during 2022 or 2023. 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.

2024 EDITION

Nominations should be sent as soon as possible, but not later than 30 December 2023 to the Chair of the relevant panel: Renee Prendergast (r.prendergast@qub.ac.uk)

Please note also the following points:

Self-nominations are not accepted.
Nominations should include:
(i) Full bibliographic details of the book.
(ii) A short statement (in English) of why the book merits being considered for a prize.
(iii) An electronic copy of the book, if this is available.

The final decision on the prize will be made by the Council of ESHET in Graz

Rules for Awards
- No current member of the Council, Executive Committee or Senate is eligible for an academic prize or grant awarded by ESHET.
- Nobody can receive more than one award of the Society for the same work.
- Any member of an awarding committee needs to declare the extent of his/her institutional connections and/or extent of collaboration with the persons eligible for academic prizes.

Winners of the past editions

2018 Best Scholarly edition
Title: Jean-Claude-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi, Oeuvres économiques complètes,
Edited by: Pascal Bridel, Francesca Dal Degan and Nicolas Eyguesier
Publisher: Paris: Economica, 2017

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
Blanqui lecture:
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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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