I am very pleased to announce the winners of the History of Economics  
Society scholarship prizes for 2006:  
  
Joseph J. Spengler Book Prize is awarded to Harro Maas of the University of  
Amsterdam for his book: William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern  
Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2005).  
  
Best Article Prize is awarded to Carl Wennerlind of Barnard College,  
Columbia University, for his paper "David Hume's Monetary Theory Revisited:  
Was He Rally a Quantity Theorist and an Inflationist?" Journal of Political  
Economy, 113, 2005, 223-252.  
  
Joseph Dorfman Prize (for Best Doctoral Dissertation) is awarded to Cristel  
Anne de Rouvray for her dissertation: "Economists Writing History: American  
and French Experience in the mid-20th Century" supervised by Professor Mary  
Morgan at the London School of Economics.  
  
The prizes will be awarded at the 33rd Annual HES Conference to be held at  
Grinnell University in Grinnell Iowa, June 23-26, 2006. Additional  
information about both the meeting and the prizes is available on the HES  
website <http://eh.net/HE/HisEcSoc/>  
  
I thank the chairs of the respective prize committees - John Whitaker, H.  
Spencer Banzhaf, and Nicola Giocoli - as well as all of the members of the  
three committees for their excellent work in this important service to the  
society and our field.  
  
D. Wade Hands  
President  
History of Economics Society