Alice Amsden Book Award 2025 – Call for Nominations
2025 Alice Amsden Book Award
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
Call for nominations
Deadline: 21 February 2025
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The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) invites nominations for its 2025 Alice Amsden Book Award for an outstanding scholarly book that breaks new ground in the study of socio-economics. Eligible books must have a 2023 or 2024 first edition publication date and cannot be edited volumes. The deadline for nominations is 21 February 2025.
Only current SASE members are invited to nominate a book for the prize, and authors are welcome to nominate their own work (to become a SASE member, go here: Join SASE! – SASE).
To nominate a book, please send BOTH an electronic copy (that can be shared with all committee members) to sasebookaward@sase.org, as well as a hard copy to each of the Committee members.
Both the hard copies and the electronic copy must be received by the 21 February deadline. You must include a brief nomination letter that states how the book contributes to SASE’s intellectual mission.
Please note: All books/submissions must be in English, and have a first edition publication date of 2023 or 2024. Also note that achieving diversity and inclusion is a priority for SASE.
Please direct any questions to SASE Executive Director Annelies Fryberger, saseexecutive@sase.org or to Committee Chair Elizabeth Thurbon e.thurbon@unsw.edu.au.
2025 Committee Members
Elizabeth Thurbon [chair] (UNSW Sydney)
Michelle Hsieh (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica)
Jason Jackson (MIT)
Kimberly Kay Hoang (University of Chicago)
Maite Tapia (Michigan State University)
Addresses for physical copies:
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Elizabeth Thurbon School of Social Sciences Morven Brown Building UNSW Sydney Sydney NSW 2050 Australia |
Maite Tapia 4830 Sunny Meadow Circle Okemos MI 48864 USA |
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Michelle F. Hsieh Institute of Sociology Academia Sinica 128, Sec.2, Academia Rd. Taipei, Taiwan 11529 |
Kimberly Kay Hoang UChicago Dept of Sociology 1126 E 59th St Chicago, IL 60607 USA |
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Jason Jackson Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 9-537 77 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge MA 02139 USA |
Address for electronic copies (these should be files that can be shared with all committee members): sasebookaward@sase.org
About Alice Amsden
A prolific scholar, Alice Amsden wrote extensively about the process of industrialization in emerging economies, particularly in Asia. Her work frequently emphasized the importance of the state as a creator of economic growth, and challenged the idea that globalization had produced generally uniform conditions in which emerging economies could find a one-size-fits-all path to prosperity. Amsden wrote or co-authored seven books, and dozens of journal articles, essays and chapters in edited volumes. She also wrote frequently for general-interest publications; her work appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Dissent, Boston Review, Technology Review and others.
2024 Alice Amsden Book Award winners:
Winner: Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets by Kimberly Kay Hoang (Princeton, 2022)
Honorable Mentions:
Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India by Smitha Radhakrishnan (Duke University Press, 2022)
Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines by Victor Roy (University of California Press, 2023)