Awards

Alice Amsden Book Award

SER Best Article Prize

David Marsden Best Paper Prize

2024

Winner: Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets by Kimberly Kay Hoang

Honorable Mentions: 

Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India by Smitha Radhakrishnan

Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines by Victor Roy

Winner: Horn, Alexander, Anthony Kevins and Kees van Kersbergen. 2023. “The Paternalist Politics of Punitive and Enabling Workfare: Evidence from a New Dataset on Workfare Reforms in 16 Countries, 1980–2015.” Socio-Economic Review 21(4):2137-66.

Honorable Mentions: 

Winner:

“Neither employment, nor self-employment”, by Sara Maric, Laura Thäter, and Elke Schüßler.

Honorable mention:

“Industrial relations and firm-level innovation. A comparative analysis of establishment data in Germany and Italy”, by Guendalina Anzolin, Chiara Benassi, and Armanda Cetrulo.

2023

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

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

Winner: “Gender identity and wives’ labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1983 and 2016” (Socio-Economic Review 20(1): 257–279), by Maximilian Sprengholz, Anna Wieber, and Elke Holst.

Winner: “Divergent Trajectories: Social Mobility, Education and Job Quality in Chile.” by Javier Gonzalez.

Honorable Mention: 
“Industrial versus artisanal mining: The effects on local labour in Liberia.” by Melanie Gräser. 

2022

Winner: China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption by Yuen Yuen Ang

Honorable Mentions: 
– Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States byRebecca Elliott
– Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

Winner: “Creating Crony Capitalism: Neoliberal Globalization and the Fuelling of Corruption” (Socio-Economic Review 19(2): 607–634), by Bernhard Reinsberg, Alexander Kentikelenis, and Thomas Stubbs

Winner: “So near and yet so far: a new look at the comparison of the French and British models,” by Thomas Amossé, Héloïse Petit, Alex Bryson, and John Forth

2021

Winner: Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas by Amy Offner

Honorable Mention: Neoliberal Resilience: Lessons in Democracy and Development from Latin America and Eastern Europe by Aldo Madariaga

Winner: “The Financialization of Policy Preferences: Financial Asset Ownership, Regulation and Crisis Management” (Socio-Economic Review 18(3): 655–680), by Stefano Pagliari, Lauren M. Phillips, and Kevin L. Young

2020

Winner: American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation by Sarah
Quinn

Honorable Mention: In the Red: The Politics of Public Debt Accumulation in Developed Countries by Zsófia Barta

Co-winner: “Spatial Mismatch and Youth Unemployment in US Cities: Public Transportation as a Labor Market Institution” (Socio-Economic Review 17(2): 357-379), by Christof Brandtner, Anna Lunn, and Cristobal Young

Co-winner: “Permanent Budget Surpluses as a Fiscal Regime” (Socio-Economic Review 17(4): 1043-1063), by Lukas Haffert

2019

Winner: The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment
in Africa, by Ching Kwan Lee

Winner: “Opposition to Shareholder Value: Bond Rating Agencies and Conflicting Logics in Corporate Finance” (Socio-Economic Review 16(1): 85–112), by Jacob Apkarian

2018

Winner: “Left without Choice? Economic Ideas, Frame and the Party Politics of Value Added Taxation” (Socio-Economic Review  15(4): 777-796), by Achim Kemmerling

Honorable Mention: “Constructing the Rational Actor: Ideological Labor and Science Politics in the Global Food System” (Socio-Economic Review 15(2): 263-281), by Jessica Epstein

2017

Co-winner: “How the Euro Divides the Union: The Effects of Economic Adjustment on Support for Democracy in Europe” (Socio-Economic Review 14(1): 1-26), by Klaus Armingeon, Kai Guthmann, and David Weisstanner

Co-winner: “Making Materiality Matter: A Sociological Analysis of Prices on the Dutch Fiction Book Market, 1980-2009” (Socio-Economic Review 14(2): 363-381), by Thomas Franssen and Olav Velthuis

2016

Winner: “Why Do Firms Financialize? Meso-level Evidence from the US Apparel and Footwear Industry, 1991-2005” (Socio-Economic Review 13(3): 549-573), by Matthew Soener

Honorable Mention: “The Role of Engineering Consultancies as Network-Centered Actors to Develop Indigenous, Technical Capacity: The Case of Iran’s Automotive Industry” (Socio-Economic Review 13(4): 747-769), by Darius Bozorg Mehri

2015

Winner: “Forms of Welfare Capitalism and Education-Based Participatory Inequality” (Socio-Economic Review 12(2): 437-462), by Carsten Q. Schneider and Kristin Makszin

Honorable Mention: “Brothers’ Keepers: Gift Giving Networks and the Organization of Jewish American Diaspora Nationalism” (Socio-Economic Review 12(3): 463-488), by Dan Lainer-Vos

2014

Winner: “Tax Increment Financing, Economic Development Professionals and the Financialization of Urban Politics” (Socio-Economic Review 11(3): 413–40), by Josh Pacewicz

Honorable Mention: “Tenuous Link: Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment in Advanced and New Market Economies” (Socio-Economic Review 11(4): 739–769), by Sabina Avdagic and Paola Salardi

2013

Winner: “Using Basic Personal Values to Test Theories of Union Memberships” (Socio-Economic Review 10(3): 683-703), by Hasan Kirmanoglu and Cem Baslevent

2012

Winner: “Upgrading or Polarization? Occupational Change in Britain, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, 1990- 2008” (Socio-Economic Review 9(3): 503-531, by Daniel Oesch and Jorge Rodriguez Menes

2011

Winner: “The East Asian Welfare State Debate and Surrogate Social Policy: An Exploratory Study on Japan and South Korea” (Socio-Economic Review 8(3): 411–435), by Pil Ho Kim

2010

Winner: “Where Do Innovations Come from? Transformations in the US National Innovation System, 1970–2006” (Socio-Economic Review 7(3): 459–483), by Fred Block and Matthew Keller

2009

Winner: “Inequality, Public Opinion, and Redistribution” (Socio-Economic Review 6(1): 35–68), by Lane Kenworthy and Leslie McCall

2008

Winner: “What’s on the Path? Path Dependence, Organizational Diversity and the Problem of Institutional Change in the US Economy, 1900–1950” (Socio-Economic Review 5(1): 47–80), by Marc Schneiberg