The Adam Smith Prizes are prizes currently awarded for the best overall examination performance and best dissertation in Part IIB of the

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

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(the graduation examination for economics undergraduates) at the

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. The prize - named after Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith - was originally established in 1891 and awarded triennially for the best submitted essay on a subject of the writer's choice.

List of past recipients

* 1894

Arthur Lyon Bowley Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley, FBA (6 November 1869 – 21 January 1957) was an English statistician and economist who worked on economic statistics and pioneered the use of sampling techniques in social surveys. Early life Bowley's father, James Wil ...

* 1897

Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence, PC (né Lawrence; 28 December 1871 – 10 September 1961) was a British Labour politician who, among other things, campaigned for women's suffrage. Background and education B ...

* 1900 Sydney Chapman * 1903

Arthur Cecil Pigou Arthur Cecil Pigou (; 18 November 1877 – 7 March 1959) 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 take chair ...

* 1906

Ernest Alfred Benians Ernest Alfred Benians (23 October 1880, Goudhurst, Kent – February 1952) was a British academic and historian.Janus notes He was born in Goudhurst, Kent, and was educated at Bethany School, where his father was headmaster. He went to the Uni ...

* 1909

John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, ( ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originally trained in ...

* 1929 R. F. Kahn * 1930

Ruth Cohen Ruth Cohen may refer to: * Ruth Cohen (economist) (1906–1991), British economist and principal of Newnham College * Ruth Cohen (actress) (1930–2008), American actress {{hndis, Cohen, Ruth ...

* 1932 K. S. Isles * 1933 B. P. Adarkar * 1935 W. B. Reddaway * 1936 D. G. Champernowne * 1954

Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...

* 1956 Manmohan Singh * 1974 Martin Osborne * 1987 Richard J. Parkin * 2000 Saugato Datta and Richard Fearon * 2006 Mark Shields * 2007 Stefanie Stantcheva * 2008 Thomas Mckendrick and Shivam Patel * 2009 Praneet Shah *2011 Ossie Akushie and Shafi Anwar * 2013 Inna Grinis and Ivan Kuznetsov * 2014 James Walker * 2015 Ben Andrews and Jonathon Hazell * 2016 Isar Bhattacharjee and Toni Oki * 2017 Joel Flynn and Joseph Lee * 2018 Tireni Ajilore, George Nikolakoudis, Laurence O’Brien and Sajan Shah * 2019 Vlastimil Rasocha and Kuishuai Yi * 2020 Neal Patel, David Lee, Liam Grant, Andrew Koh and Michael Bennett * 2021 Valerie Chuang, Matthew Chen and Jack Golden

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