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. 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.

List of past recipients

1894 Arthur Lyon Bowley

1897 Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence

1900 Sydney Chapman

1903 Arthur Cecil Pigou

1906 Ernest Alfred Benians

1909 John Maynard Keynes

1914 Claude Guillebaud

1929 R. F. Kahn

1930 Ruth Cohen

1932 K. S. Isles

1933 B. P. Adarkar

1935 W. B. Reddaway

1936 D. G. Champernowne

1954 Amartya Sen

1956 Manmohan Singh

1974 Martin Osborne

1987 Richard J. Parkin

2000 Saugato Datta and Richard Fearon

2004 James Benford

2006 Mark Shields

2007 Stefanie Stantcheva

2008 Thomas Mckendrick and Shivam Patel

2009 Praneet Shah

2011 Ossie Akushie and Shafi Anwar

2013 Inna Grinis and Ivan Kuznetsov

2014 James Walker

2015 Ben Andrews and Jonathon Hazell

2016 Isar Bhattacharjee and Toni Oki

2017 Joel Flynn and Joseph Lee

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

2019 Vlastimil Rasocha and Kuishuai Yi

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

2021 Valerie Chuang, Matthew Chen and Jack Golden

See also

List of economics awards

References

Economics awards

Awards and prizes of the University of Cambridge

Student awards

Adam Smith Prize