This prize, made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, recognizes historical work on the effects of business enterprises on the economic conditions of the countries in which they operate. A prize of $5,000 is awarded annually for a book published in the two years prior to the year of the award. Book nominations are accepted from publishers. Four copies of each book must accompany a nomination and be submitted to the Prize Coordinator, Carol Ressler Lockman, Business History Conference, PO Box 3630, 298 Buck Road, Wilmington DE 19807-0630 USA. Email: clockman@hagley.org. The submission deadline is November 30. The Gomory Prize Committee shall consist of three members, one of whom will be the chair. Each member serves a three-year term, rotating onto the committee as junior member, then becoming chair, and then exiting after serving a final year as senior member. The chair of the Gomory Prize Committee shall preside over the entire process.
Ralph Gomory Prize
2024 Ralph Gomory Prize Recipient
Providence College
The University of Chicago Press, 2023
Honorable Mention:
Ghassan Moazzin, Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919. Cambridge University Press, 2022
2023 Ralph Gomory Prize Recipient
The University of Manchester
Yale University Press, 2021
2022 Ralph Gomory Prize Recipient
Villanova University
Yale University Press, 2020
2021 Ralph Gomory Prize Recipient
Louisiana State University
Princeton University Press, 2020
2020 Ralph Gomory Prize Recipient
University of British Columbia
Harvard University Press, 2019
2019 Ralph Gomory Prize Recipient
(1980-2020)
Harvard University Press, 2018
Honorable Mention:
Herbert S. Klein, Columbia University and Francisco Vidal Luna, University of São Paulo, Faculty of Economics, Administration and Accounting, Department of Economics
Feeding the World: Brazil's Transformation into a Modern Agricultural Economy
Cambridge University Press, 2019
2018 Ralph Gomory Prize Recipient
Duke University
Princeton University Press, 2017
2017 Ralph Gomory Prize Co-recipient
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016
Honorable Mention:
William N. Goetzmann, Yale University School of Management
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible (Princeton University Press, 2016)
2017 Ralph Gomory Prize Co-recipient
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
University of California Press, 2016
2016 Ralph Gomory Prize Recipient
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Cambridge University Press, 2015
2015 Ralph Gomory Prize Co-recipient
Drexel University
University of North Carolina Press, 2014
2015 Ralph Gomory Prize Co-recipient
Yale University School of Management
Princeton University Press, 2014
2014 Ralph Gomory Prize Recipient
University of Delaware
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012
2013 Ralph Gomory Prize Recipient
University of Chicago Press, 2012
Honorable Mention:
Jennifer L. Anderson, SUNY-Stony Brook
Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America (Harvard University Press, 2012)
2013 Ralph Gomory Prize Article Prize Recipient
Lecturer in Economic History and Management, London School of Economics
2012 Ralph Gomory Prize Article Prize Recipient
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wesleyan University
2012 Ralph Gomory Prize Recipient
Stanford University
W. W. Norton, 2011
Honorable Mention:
Jason Colby, University of Victoria
The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America (Cornell University Press, 2011)
Philip J. Stern, Duke University
The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press, 2011)
2011 Ralph Gomory Prize Recipient
Columbia University
Harvard University Press, 2010
Honorable Mention:
James R. Fichter, Lingnan University
So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism
Harvard University Press, 2010
