SASE 2023 Alice Amsden Best Book Award


The Alice Amsden Best Book Award committee – Yuen Yuen Ang (University of Michigan) [chair], Daniel Kinderman (University of Delaware), and Gabor Scheiring (Bocconi University) – considered submitted books with a 2021 or 2022 first edition publication date, and which are not edited volumes, with the aim of selecting an outstanding scholarly book that breaks new ground in the study of economic behavior and/or its policy implications with regard to societal, institutional, historical, philosophical, psychological, and ethical factors.

The Alice Amsden Book Award is given annually for the best book that breaks new ground in the study of economic behavior and/or its policy implications with regard to societal, institutional, historical, philosophical, psychological, and ethical factors. The prize comes with an award of $2,000.

Winner


Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street by Megan Tobias Neely

The committee is delighted to announce that the 2023 Alice Amsden Book Award of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics goes to sociologist Megan Tobias Neeely for her book Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street (University of California Press, 2022).


Honorable Mention


Recoding Power: Tactics for Mobilizing Tech Workers by Sidney A. Rothstein

The committee has also decided to award an Honorable Mention to political scientist Sidney A. Rothstein for his book Recoding Power: Tactics for Mobilizing Tech Workers (Oxford University Press, 2022).


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