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[Here is Dan Hammond's announcement of the Best Article award at the 
History of Economics Society meeting, July 1, 2001. -- RBE] 
 
Award for Best Article in the History of Economics, 2001 
 
The second award that I have the pleasure of presenting this evening is the 
Award for the Best Article in the History of Economics. Professor Samuel 
Hollander receives this year's award for his article, "Sraffa and the 
Interpretation of Ricardo: The Marxian Dimension." His article was 
published in History of Political Economy, volume 32, issue 2, summer 2000. 
 
Prof. Hollander sent his regrets that he is unable to be with us this 
weekend. He is at Ben Gurion University in Israel this summer, and had a 
prior commitment to travel to the US later this month.  Making two trips 
between Israel and the US inside of four weeks was not practical.  
 
The best article award committee received 27 different nominations. They 
wrote in their report: 
 
The final four were all articles of outstanding quality, each making an 
important contribution to our field. However, one article seemed to rise to 
the top more often than the others. * In citing this [Hollander's] article 
we note that it works on two levels: it not only assesses Sraffa's 
interpretation of Ricardo as an historical figure in his own right. Drawing 
on the newly available archival materials, Sraffa's Cambridge lectures, 
Hollander sheds new light on a particularly vexing controversy in the 
history of economic thought. The paper is impressively and powerfully 
argued. 
 
The committee found two other articles to be sufficiently strong contenders 
that they suggested I publicly acknowledge them as strong runners up. I am 
quite pleased to do so. Two of the authors are with us. 
 
The two articles are: 
 
Malcolm Rutherford "Understanding Institutional Economics: 1918-1929," 
published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, volume 22, no 
3, September 2000 
 
and 
 
Luigino Bruni and Robert Sugden, "Moral Canals: Trust and Social Capital in 
the Work of Hume, Smith, and Genovesi," published in Economics and 
Philosophy, Volume 16, no. 1, April 2000. 
 
 
Dan Hammond 
HES President 
July 1, 2001 
 
 
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