[OPE-L] Veblen 150 Prizes Awards

[GERALD LEVY <gerald_a_levy@xxxxxxx>]

> From: Geoff Hodgson <g.m.hodgson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Veblen 150 Prizes Awards
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007
>
> ANNOUNCEMENT
>
> Winners of the Competition to Honour the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of
> Thorstein Veblen
>
> This joint AFEE-EAEPE prize competition was for works unpublished or
> published no earlier than 2005. The prizes of £2000 each were presented at
> the EAEPE conference in Porto in Portugal on Saturday 3 November 2007.
>
> Winners of Category 1
> For candidates born on or after 1 January 1973, or currently enrolled PhD
> students, or candidates who were awarded their PhD on or after 1 January
> 2003.
>    * Olivier Brette, ?Expanding the Dialogue Between Institutional
> Economics and Contemporary Evolutionary Economics: Veblen?s Methodology as
> a Framework?, Journal of Economic Issues, 40(2), June 2006, pp. 493-500.
> This published journal article addresses the question of possible links
> between various traditions of institutional economics, neo-Schumpeterian
> evolutionary economics and the regulation school. In a highly creative
> move, Brette uses Veblen?s methodological framework to consider points of
> both dialogue and possible fusion.
>    * Zdravka K. Todorova, Reconsidering the Role of Households in Economic
> Theory, PhD Thesis, University of Missouri ? Kansas City, 2007.
> This ambitious PhD thesis considers the role of households within a
> micro-macro framework developed from a Post Keynesian and chartalist
> monetary theory of production. The work adds a further, Veblenian dimension
> by addressing the roles of gender and production in a pecuniary culture. It
> is a highly skilful and creative synthesis.
>
> Winners of Category 2
> For candidates who did not qualify for Category 1.
>    * Avner Greif, Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons
> from Medieval Trade (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press,
> 2006).
> Greif?s book focuses on the evolution of the basic economic institutions of
> property and contract enforcement from medieval times. Using a combination
> of economic theory and rich empirical material, Greif develops an original
> and powerful explanation of the development of these institutions, which
> respects both cultural and historical specificities.
>    * Arild Vatn, Institutions and the Environment (Cheltenham and
> Northampton: UK and MA, USA, 2005).
> Vatn?s book addresses the urgent question of environmental policy and shows
> that an understanding of the role of institutions is vital in this area. It
> incorporates insights on institutions from both mainstream and heterodox
> traditions of thought. Magisterial and comprehensive, it is both a textbook
> and an inspiring, pioneering monograph.