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ESHET YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD

This prize recognizes the scholarly achievements of historians of economic thought at an early stage of their careers. The prize is awarded to scholars below 40 at the annual conference in recognition of outstanding publications in the history of economic thought. It consists of 1,000 euros and a waiving of the conference fee when the prize is awarded.

2024 Award Recipient: Francesco SERGI 

Francesco Sergi is Associate Professor in Economics at Université Paris Est Créteil and a member of the research centre “LIPHA” (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d'étude du politique Hannah Arendt). His main research interests are the history of computing and computers in economics, and the history of macroeconomics, with a focus on macroeconomic modelling and its use in policymaking institutions.

He recently published, with Antonella Rancan, Modelling Europe (Palgrave, 2024), a history of the building and use of multi-country macroeconomic models at the European Commission. He also edited, with Marcel Boumans, Pierrick Dechaux, and Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, the special issue The Computerization of Economics. Computers, Software, and the Internet in the History of Economics (published in OEconomia – History, Methodology, Philosophy, 2023).

He holds a PhD in economics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Before joining Université Paris Est Créteil, he was a lecturer at the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England.

Past award winners

Laurie Bréban (2023) 

Nicolas Brisset (2022)

Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and Erwin Dekker (2021)

Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay (2020)

Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (2019)

Béatrice Cherrier (2018)

Elodie Bertrand and Till Düppe (2017)

Floris Heukelom and Guy Numa (2016)

Pedro Garcia Duarte and Herrade Igersheim (2015) Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (2014)

Arnaud Orain (2013)

Michaël Assous (2012)

Estrella Trincado (2011)

Loïc Charles (2010).