Adam Smith Prize

{{Short description|Economics award}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} The '''Adam Smith Prizes''' are prizes currently awarded for the best overall examination performance and best dissertation in Part IIB of the Economics Tripos (the graduation examination for economics undergraduates) at the University of Cambridge.<ref>[http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/so_ch12.pdf Ordinances of the University of Cambridge, Chapter XII] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060513083113/http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/so_ch12.pdf |date=May 13, 2006 }} p.871</ref> 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.<ref name="corr-alf" />

==List of past recipients== * 1894 Arthur Lyon Bowley<ref name="corr-alf">{{cite book | title = The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, Economist: Towards the close, 1903-1924 | first1 = Alfred | last1 = Marshall | authorlink = Alfred Marshall | first2 = John King | last2 = Whitaker | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1996 | isbn = 0-521-55886-7 | pages = 94, 148}}</ref> * 1897 Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence<ref name="corr-alf" /> * 1900 Sydney Chapman<ref name="corr-alf" /> * 1903 Arthur Cecil Pigou<ref name="corr-alf" /> * 1906 Ernest Alfred Benians * 1909 John Maynard Keynes<ref name="corr-alf" /> * 1914 Claude Guillebaud<ref>{{Who's Who | title = GUILLEBAUD, Claude William | id = U155136 | type = was | volume = 2023 | edition = online}}</ref> * 1929 R. F. Kahn<ref>{{cite journal | title = Educational Topics and Events | journal = Nature | volume = 124 | pages = 778–779 | date = 1929-11-16 | doi = 10.1038/124778b0 | issue=3133| doi-access = free }}</ref> * 1930 Ruth Cohen<ref>{{cite journal | title = Educational Topics and Events | journal = Nature | volume = 126 | pages = 791–792 | date = 1930-11-15 | doi = 10.1038/126791b0 | issue=3185| doi-access = free }}</ref> * 1932 K. S. Isles * 1933 B. P. Adarkar<ref>{{cite journal | title = University and Educational Intelligence | volume = 132 | journal = Nature | page = 977 | date = 1933-12-23 | doi = 10.1038/132977a0 | issue=3347| bibcode = 1933Natur.132Q.977. | doi-access = free }}</ref> * 1935 W. B. Reddaway<ref>{{cite journal | title = Educational Topics and Events | journal = Nature | volume = 135 | page = 77 | doi = 10.1038/135077a0 | year = 1935 | issue=3402| doi-access = free }}</ref> * 1936 D. G. Champernowne<ref>{{cite journal| title = Educational Topics and Events | journal = Nature | volume = 138 | page = 1110 | date = 1936-12-26 | doi = 10.1038/1381110a0 | issue=3504| bibcode = 1936Natur.138Q1110. | doi-access = free }}</ref> * 1948 I. G. Patel<ref>{{cite web | title=I G Patel | IIMA | url=https://www.iima.ac.in/node/19240 }}</ref> * 1954 Amartya Sen<ref>[http://www.nd.edu/~kmukhopa/cal300/sen/amartyaProfile.htm Prof. Amartya Sen's Profile] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917211924/http://www.nd.edu/~kmukhopa/cal300/sen/amartyaProfile.htm |date=September 17, 2008 }}</ref> * 1956 Manmohan Singh<ref>[http://164.100.47.5:8080/members/website/Biodata.asp?no=2 Biodata]</ref> * 1974 Martin Osborne<ref>[http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/CV.HTM Martin J. Osborne's curriculum vitae]</ref> * 1987 Richard J. Parkin * 2000 Saugato Datta and Richard Fearon<ref>[http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/1999-2000/weekly/5816/9.html Cambridge University Reporter 12 July 2000]</ref><ref>[http://www.3ieimpact.org/media/filer_public/2012/07/19/sdatta-cv.pdf Saugato Datta CV on 3ie site]</ref> * 2004 James Benford * 2006 Mark Shields and Johannes Wieland * 2007 Stefanie Stantcheva<ref>[https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantcheva/files/cv_sstantcheva_jan2019.pdf Prof. Stefanie Stantcheva's CV]</ref> * 2008 Thomas Mckendrick and Shivam Patel<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/intranet/exams/Exam_Prizes.pdf|title=Econ Prizes|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> * 2009 Praneet Shah *2011 Ossie Akushie and Shafi Anwar * 2012 Dhruva Murugasu<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://alumni.christs.cam.ac.uk/file/2012-Magazine.pdf|year=2012|publisher=Christ's College|title=Christ's College Magazine|issue=237|accessdate=2025-09-20}}</ref> * 2013 Anna Stansbury, Inna Grinis and Ivan Kuznetsov<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013-Annual-Report.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112154/http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013-Annual-Report.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 2014 James Walker<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/clarealumni/docs/clare_association_annual_2014_-_pdf|title=Clare Association Annual 2014|date=14 July 2015 |access-date=2016-07-18}}</ref> * 2015 Ben Andrews and Jonathon Hazell<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/intranet/exams/Exam_Prizes.pdf|title = Raven login}}</ref> * 2016 Isar Bhattacharjee and Toni Oki<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/intranet/exams/Exam_Prizes.pdf|title = Raven login}}</ref> * 2017 Joel Flynn and Joseph Lee<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/intranet/exams/Exam_Prizes.pdf|title = Raven login}}</ref> * 2018 Tireni Ajilore, George Nikolakoudis, Laurence O’Brien and Sajan Shah<ref>https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/13698372/mod_resource/content/0/FACULTY%20OF%20ECONOMICS_PRIZES.pdf {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> * 2019 Vlastimil Rasocha and Kuishuai Yi * 2020 Neal Patel, David Lee, Liam Grant, Andrew Koh and Michael Bennett<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/news/adam-smith-prize-winners-2020|title=Congratulations to the 2020 Adam Smith Prize Winners|date=27 July 2020}}</ref> * 2021 Valerie Chuang, Matthew Lee Chen and Jack Golden<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/news/adam-smith-prizes-for-undergraduate-exams|title = Undergraduate achievements topped with Adam Smith prizes|date = July 2021}}</ref> * 2022 George Gatsios, Mahin Vekaria, Eu-Wayne Mok and Gaon Kim <ref>{{Cite web |date=23 December 2022 |title=Cambridge University Reporter No 6681 |url=https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/cam-only/reporter/2022-23/weekly/6681/6681.pdf}}</ref> * 2023 Hiroaki Endo and James Legrand <ref>{{Cite web | date = 30 April 2024 | title = Cambridge University Reporter No 6738 | url=https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2023-24/weekly/6738/section2.shtml}}</ref> * 2024 Taneesha Datta, Vignesh Kamath, James Yu and Emmanuel Jason Adrianus Sutanto * 2025 Amandeep Singh, Max Sanders, Wei Kang Lee and Sumedh Brahmadevara

==See also==

* List of economics awards

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Economics awards Category:Awards and prizes of the University of Cambridge Category:Student awards