Adam Smith Prize

The Adam Smith Prizes are prizes currently awarded for the best overall examination performance and best dissertation in Part IIB of the Economics Tripos (the graduation examination for economics undergraduates) at the University of Cambridge.^[1] The prize - named after Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith - was originally established in 1891 and awarded triennially for the best submitted essay on a subject of the writer's choice.^[2]

1894 ^[2]

Arthur Lyon Bowley

1897 ^[2]

Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence

1900 ^[2]

Sydney Chapman

1903 ^[2]

Arthur Cecil Pigou

1906

Ernest Alfred Benians

1909 ^[2]

John Maynard Keynes

1914 Claude Guillebaud

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1929 ^[4]

R. F. Kahn

1930 ^[5]

Ruth Cohen

1932

K. S. Isles

1933 B. P. Adarkar

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1935 ^[7]

W. B. Reddaway

1936 ^[8]

D. G. Champernowne

1954 ^[9]

Amartya Sen

1956 ^[10]

Manmohan Singh

1974 ^[11]

Martin Osborne

1987 Richard J. Parkin

2000 Saugato Datta and Richard Fearon^[13]

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2004 James Benford

2006 Mark Shields

2007 ^[14]

Stefanie Stantcheva

2008 Thomas Mckendrick and Shivam Patel

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2009 Praneet Shah

2011 Ossie Akushie and Shafi Anwar

2013 Inna Grinis and Ivan Kuznetsov

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2014 James Walker

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2015 Ben Andrews and Jonathon Hazell

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2016 Isar Bhattacharjee and Toni Oki

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2017 Joel Flynn and Joseph Lee

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2018 Tireni Ajilore, George Nikolakoudis, Laurence O’Brien and Sajan Shah

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2019 Vlastimil Rasocha and Kuishuai Yi

2020 Neal Patel, David Lee, Liam Grant, Andrew Koh and Michael Bennett

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2021 Valerie Chuang, Matthew Chen and Jack Golden

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2022 George Gatsios, Mahin Vekaria, Eu-Wayne Mok and Gaon Kim

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2023 Hiroaki Endo and James Legrand