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Prizes and Awards

Faculty Honors

International Economic History Association President

2002-06: Richard Sutch (UC Riverside)

Economics History Association President

2010-11: Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
2009-10: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA)
2007-08: Alan Olmstead (UC Davis)
2005-06: Gary D. Libecap (UC Santa Barbara)
2004-05: Roger Ransom (UC Riverside)
2001-02: Peter Lindert (UC Davis)
1992-93: Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley)
1989-90: Richard Sutch (UC Riverside)

Business History Conference President

2000-01: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA)

Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History

2007: Peter Lindert (UC Davis)
2006: Kerry Odell (Scripps College (PhD UC Berkeley))
2002: Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
1997: Martha Olney (UC Berkeley)

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Heineken Prize for History

2000: Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley)

Arthur H. Cole Prize for Best Article Published in the Journal of Economic History

2006: Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (UCLA), “The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World”

2003: Alan Olmstead (UC Davis) and Paul Rhode, "Hog-Round Marketing, Seed Quality, and Government Policy: Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production, 1920-1960”

2000: Alan Taylor (UC Davis) and Gerardo della Paolera "Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression: Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime”

1997: Shawn Kantor (UC Merced) and Price Fishback "The Durable Experiment: State Insurance of Workers' Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century”

1991: Jean Laurent Rosenthal (UCLA), “The Development of Irrigation in Provence, 1700-1860: The French Revolution and Economic Growth”

1989: Kenneth Sokoloff (UCLA), “Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America: Evidence from Patent Records, 1790-1846”

1987: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA), “Banks, Kinship, and Economic Development: The New England Case”

1986: Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch (History and Economics, UC Riverside), "Labor of Older Americans: Retirement of Men On and Off the Job, 1870-1937."

Prize for best article published in Explorations in Economic History

2007: David Jacks (Simon Fraser University, Ph.D. from UC Davis)

2006: Dan Bogart (UC Irvine, Ph.D. from UCLA)

Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize for Outstanding Book on the Economic History of Europe:

2005: Peter Lindert (UC Davis) for Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge University Press

2001: Philip T. Hoffman of the California Institute of Technology, Gilles Postel-Vinay of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (UCLA) for Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870, University of Chicago Press

1999: A. M. van der Woude and Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley) The First Modern Economy. Cambridge University Press.

Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Price for Outstanding Book on North American Economic History

2006: B. Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College, PhD from UCLA) for The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920, Cambridge University Press

1995: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA), for Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England.  Cambridge University Press.

Independent Publishers Book Awards

2007: Gregory Clark (UC Davis), Gold Medal, Finance and Economics Category, for A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships

2004: Alan Taylor (UC Davis)
2001: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (UCLA)
1999: Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
1990: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA)
1987: Roger Ransom (UC Riverside)
1984: Richard Sutch (UC Riverside)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2005: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA)
1997: Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)