The PROSE Awards recognize professional and scholarly works of merit across subject areas represented in this catalog.
Deadline
Not yet sourced
Prize amount
Not yet sourced
Criteria / coverage
Source coverage note: Economics records are tracked from PROSE Awards source records; eligibility follows the program rules and category archives where available.
How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of Nations
Carl Benedikt Frey
Result
Winner
Imprint
Princeton University Press
Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
Dariusz Wojcik, Maps, Graphics by James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti
Result
Winner
Imprint
Yale University Press
Carbon Colonialism
Laurie Parsons
Result
Winner
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
Glory M. Liu
Result
Winner
Imprint
Princeton University Press
How We Give Now: A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of Us
Lucy Bernholz
Result
Winner
Imprint
MIT Press
The Free-Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored)
Maxine Eichner
Result
Winner
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
Robert J. Shiller
Result
Winner
Imprint
Princeton University Press
EuroTragedy
Ashoka Mody
Result
Winner
Imprint
Oxford University Press
The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
Peter Temin
Result
Winner
Imprint
MIT Press
Crude Volatility
Robert McNally
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Columbia University Press
The Curse of Cash
Kenneth S. Rogoff
Result
Winner
Imprint
Princeton University Press
Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict
Heather Boushey
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Harvard University Press
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
Robert H. Frank
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Princeton University Press
Inequality: What Can Be Done?
Anthony B. Atkinson
Result
Winner
Imprint
Harvard University Press
Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses – and Misuses – of History
Barry Eichengreen
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Princeton University Press
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
Result
Winner
Imprint
Harvard University Press
Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bruce C. Greenwald
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Columbia University Press
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
Atif Mian, Amir Sufi
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
Gregory Clark
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Princeton University Press
The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
William Nordhaus
Result
Winner
Imprint
Yale University Press
Global Crossings: Immigration, Civilization, and America
Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
The Independent Institute
Risk, Chance, and Causation: Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease
Michael B. Bracken
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Yale University Press
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Angus Deaton
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Princeton University Press
Getting it Wrong: How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy
William A. Barnett
Result
Winner
Imprint
MIT Press
The Race Between Education & Technology
Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz
Result
Winner
Imprint
Harvard University Press
Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship & the State
Yasheng Huang
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Medical Malpractice
Frank A. Sloan, Lindsey M. Chepke
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
MIT Press
Social & Economic Networks
Matthew O. Jackson
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Princeton University Press
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Paul Collier
Result
Winner
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Result
Winner
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
Deirdre N. McCloskey
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
The Theory of Corporate Finance
Jean Tirole
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Princeton University Press
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade
Pietra Rivoli
Result
Winner
Imprint
Wiley
The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic Future
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Scott Burns
Result
Winner
Imprint
MIT Press
Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century
Peter H. Lindhert
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Interest and Prices
Michael Woodford
Result
Winner
Imprint
Princeton University Press
The New Financial Order
Robert J. Shiller.
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Princeton University Press
The Size of Nations
Alberto Alesina, Enrico Spolaore
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
MIT Press
Japan’s Policy Trap
Akio Mikuni, R. Taggart Murphy
Result
Winner
Imprint
Brookings Institution Press
The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism
William J. Baumol
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
Princeton University Press
The Age of Mass Migration: Causes & Economic Impact
Timothy J. Hatton, Jeffrey G. Williamson
Result
Winner
Imprint
Oxford University Press
The Econometrics of Financial Markets
John Y. Campbell, Andrew W. Lo, A. Craig MacKinlay
Result
Winner
Imprint
Princeton University Press
Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness
Brendan O'Flaherty
Result
Winner
Imprint
Harvard University Press
Aging and Old Age
Richard A. Posner
Result
Winner
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Privatizing Russia
Maxim Boycko, Andrei Schleifer,, Robert Vishny
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
MIT Press
Structural Slumps: The Modern Equilibrium Theory of Unemployment, Interest, and Assets
Edmund S. Phelps
Result
Winner
Imprint
Harvard University Press
Game Theory and the Social Contract: Volume I: Playing Fair
Kem Binmore
Result
Honorable mention
Imprint
MIT Press
Trade—The Engine of Growth in East Asia
Peter C.Y. Chow, Mitchell H. Kellman
Result
Winner
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Small Wars, Big Defense: Paying for the Military After the Cold War
Murray Weidenbaum
Result
Winner
Imprint
Oxford University Press