The Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize(Economic History Association)is awarded every other year for an Outstanding Book on the Economic History of Europe

2023

A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century

David Todd

Princeton University Press, 2021

2021

(1)The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis

Sheilagh Ogilvie

Princeton University Press, 2019

(2)Dark Matter Credit: The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France

Philip Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Princeton University Press, 2019

2019

The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World

Ran Abramitzky

Princeton University Press, 2018

2017

The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World

Bruce Campbell

Cambridge University Press, 2016

2015

The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility

Gregory Clark

Princeton University Press, 2014

2013

Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800

Regina Grafe

Princeton University Press, 2012

2011

Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

Jane Humphries

Cambridge University Press, 2010

2009

The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy

Jan deVries

Cambridge University Press, 2008

2007

Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade

Avner Greif

Cambridge University Press, 2006

2005

(1)Farm to Factory : A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution

Robert C. Allen

Princeton University Press, 2003

(2)Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century

Peter Lindert

Cambridge University Press in 2002

2003

Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce AD 300-900

Michael McCormick

Cambridge University Press, 2002

2001

(1)Freedom and Growth: Markets and States in Europe, 1300-1750

Stephan Epstein

Routledge, 2000

(2)Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870

Philip T. Hoffman of the California Institute of Technology, Gilles Postel-Vinay of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal of the University of California at Los Angeles

University of Chicago Press, 2000

1999

(1)State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580–1797

Sheilagh Ogilvie

Cambridge University Press, 1997

(2)The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500–1815

Ad M. van der Woude and Jan de Vries

Cambridge University Press,1997