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[Here is Dan Hammond's announcement of the Dorfman Dissertation award at 
the History of Economics Society meeting, July 1, 2001. -- RBE] 
 
2001 Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Award 
 
Dr. Bert Mosselmans, "From Classical to Neoclassical: The Economic Thought 
of William Stanley Jevons and its Relation to his Ethics, Logic and 
Aesthetics." 
 
In 1990 the History of Economics Society established an annual prize for 
the best dissertation in the history of economics. Beside the honor, there 
is a stipend of plus expense money for the winner to attend the Society's 
annual conference, and be presented with the award at the banquet. 
 
In 1992 the family of Joseph Dorfman, historian of economic thought and 
Distinguished Fellow of the Society, endowed a permanent fund for the 
award, which is now the Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Award.  
 
Since the competition was first held in 1990 there have been eleven winners 
of the Dorfman Award. Each of these individuals has made an outstanding 
contribution in their dissertation to the history of economics. A number of 
the winners have, through their participation in Society conferences and 
committees, become leaders within the HES. Most of the winners have built 
from their dissertations distinguished research programs. 
 
I have every confidence that this year's winner will continue this 
tradition. I will quote just one statement from the Dorfman Prize Committee 
(Avi Cohen [chair], Neil Niman, and Jim Henderson): "Mosselmans's 
dissertation lives up to its title -- it is a model of breadth, depth and 
subtlety of scholarship, drawing a compelling picture of Jevons's thought 
as a unified whole." 
 
Our winner wrote his dissertation at the Free University of Brussels under 
the supervision of Dr. Dirk Frantzen. I am delighted to present the 2001 
Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Award to Dr. Bert Mosselmans for his 
dissertation, "From Classical to Neoclassical: The Economic Thought of 
William Stanley Jevons and its Relation to his Ethics, Logic and 
Aesthetics." 
 
Dan Hammond 
HES President 
July 1, 2001 
 
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