Dear Colleagues, It gives me great pleasure to announce the History of Economics Society awards for 2007. Best Article Award: This year, the HES best article committee, comprised of Alain Marciano (chair), Sheryl Kasper, Stephen Meardon, Leonidas Montes, and Pedro Teixeira, has chosen the paper by Mauro Boianovsky, "The Making of Chapters 13 and 14 of Patinkin's Money, Interest, and Prices", published in HOPE, as the best paper for 2006. The committee praised the significance of the subject matter as well as the care with which Mauro conducted his research. It is noteworthy that this is the second time Mauro has won the best article award. He earned the award previously for his article, "Wicksell on Deflation in the Early 1920s," HOPE 1999. The Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation award: The committee, Fatima Brandao, Evellyn Forget and Carl Wennerlind, has unanimously agreed to award the Dorman award for the best dissertation to Tiago Mata for his dissertation, Dissent in Economics: Making Radical Political Economics and Post Keynesian Economics, 1960-1080, completed in 2006 at the London School of Economics under the supervision of Mary Morgan. The committee wrote: We commend Mata for contributing to the field of history of economic thought with careful analyses of the emergence and trajectory of two important, yet understudied, subfields in economics... . In his work we learn how these subfields cohered around intellectual and political dissent against the prevailing economic orthodoxy and how their criticisms and polemics earned them increasing respect and popularity." The Joseph J. Spengler Best Book award: The committee of Cristina Marcuzzo (chair), Maria Pagenelli, and Joseph Persky chose Jealousy of Trade, by Istvan Hont, as this year's Spengler book recipient. They wrote: "We found Hont's book to be monumental in the detail and breadth of its scholarship. His understanding of both the primary texts he utilizes and the broader political-economic-historical contexts of that work is indeed masterful. ... This is both an outstanding work in the history of economic and political ideas and a work that is relevant to ongoing discussions today about globalization and the nation-state." Distinguished Fellow Awards: This year, the committee (Wade Hands, chair, Mary Morgan, and Roy Weintraub), chose two scholars whose scholarly achievements reflect common themes for the Distinguished Fellow award: Anthony Waterman and Donald Winch. Anthony Waterman studied as an undergraduate at Selwyn College under his tutor, Joan Robinson. He emigrated to Canada, and studied theology at St. John's COllege in Winnipeg, being ordained in 1963. His doctoral work was conducted at ANU. In 1991, he published "Revolutions, Eocnmics and Relition," makring the culmiantion of a decade of study. In this work, he makes the case that scarcity was the central point of contention between the romantic political economists and the utilitarian political economists of the 19th century. In 2005, he published "Political Economy and Christian Theology since the Enlightenment," where he examines the history of the estrangement of theology and political economy. Donald Winch, Emeritus Professor of Intellecutal History, School of Humanities, Suffolk University, obtained his economics degree at the LSE and then studied under Viner at Princeton. He has published books on economic thought during the 'classical' period that emphasize the connections between theory, policy and public debate. In 1987, he published his book on Malthus, and, in 1996, "Riches and Poverty: An Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 1750-1834." In his review of this book, Waterman writes that it is "magisterial." This is precisely correct. Like Waterman, Winch places Malthus (as opposed to Ricardo) at the center of the debate between the romantics (Carlyle, Ruskin and the like) and the utilitarian economists and churchmen. Please join me in congratulating our colleagues for these well deserved awards. Sandra Peart