Mark Blaug Prize

The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics is committed to supporting and encouraging the work of Junior Scholars in philosophy and economics. The Mark Blaug Prize in Philosophy and Economics is intended to promote and reward the best of such academic scholarship.

The prize is named in honour of Professor Mark Blaug (1927–2011), a founder of the field of philosophy and economics who made a tremendous scholarly contribution to many areas of the history and philosophy of economics. [Read the EJPE’s Special Issue on Mark Blaug’s work.] Mark Blaug’s generosity and commitment to Junior Scholars was recognized by all who knew him.

The prize includes a cash sum of 500 Euros.

You may be asked for evidence of your eligibility.

Previous Prize Winners

• 2020/2021– Malte Dold and Alexa Stanton (Pomona College)
• 2018/2019 – Sveinung S. Sivertsen (University of Bergen)
• 2017 – Patricia Rich (University of Hamburg)
• 2015 – Jack Anderson (University of Utah)
• 2014 – Guus Dix (Maastricht University)
• 2013 – Reinhard Schumacher (University of Potsdam)
• 2012 – Ittay Nissan-Rozen (Hebrew University in Jerusalem)

Another prize named in honour of Mark Blaug: Since 2014, the Foundation for European Economic Development has awarded an annual Mark Blaug Student Essay Prize for the best critical essay on modern economics by a (recent) undergraduate. The two prizes are entirely independent.