Adam Smith Prize
Encyclopedia
The Adam Smith Prize are two prizes for best performance in the Part IIB Economics
Tripos examinations and dissertation at the University of Cambridge
, Cambridge
, England. Previously the prize, established in 1891, was awarded triennially for best submitted essay on a subject of the writer's choice.
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
Tripos examinations and dissertation at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, Cambridge
Cambridge
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, England. Previously the prize, established in 1891, was awarded triennially for best submitted essay on a subject of the writer's choice.
Some past recipients
- 1894 Arthur Lyon BowleyArthur Lyon BowleySir Arthur Lyon Bowley was an English statistician and economist who worked on economic statistics and pioneered the use of sampling techniques in social surveys....
- 1897 Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-LawrenceFrederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-LawrenceFrederick William Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence PC was a British Labour politician.-Background and education:...
- 1900 Sydney Chapman
- 1903 Arthur Cecil PigouArthur Cecil PigouArthur Cecil Pigou was an English economist. As a teacher and builder of the school of economics at the University of Cambridge he trained and influenced many Cambridge economists who went on to fill chairs of economics around the world...
- 1906 Ernest Alfred BeniansErnest Alfred BeniansErnest Alfred Benians was a British academic and historian.He was born in Goudhurst, Kent, and was educated at Bethany School, where his father was headmaster. He went up to the University of Cambridge in 1899, where he was admitted to St John's College...
- 1909 John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, CB FBA , was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments...
- 1929 R. F. Kahn
- 1930 R. L. Cohen
- 1933 B. P. Adarkar
- 1935 W. B. Reddaway
- 1936 D. G. ChampernowneD. G. ChampernowneDavid Gawen Champernowne was an English economist and mathematician.After academic work at Cambridge and the London School of Economics, he worked at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University...
- 1954 Amartya SenAmartya SenAmartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
- 1956 Manmohan SinghManmohan SinghManmohan Singh is the 13th and current Prime Minister of India. He is the only Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term. A Sikh, he is the first non-Hindu to occupy the office. Singh is also the 7th Prime Minister belonging to the Indian...
- 1974 Martin Osborne
- 1987 Richard J. Parkin