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About the prize
The Greenback Letters essay competition has been running since 1985, and was established to promote clear, confident writing in the areas of public administration and economic policy. It aims to encourage long-term strategic thinking about the United States economic policy. |
Previous Winners
2003 - Guy McConnell, Marketing the United States Abroad 2001 - Jeffrey Muriel, The China Question 1999 - Kimberley Mills, The Alarm Bells of Freedom 1997 - Martin Fitzgerald, It's the Middle East, Stupid 1995 - Edward McGuire, Ready, Set, Soar 1993 - Amanda Bundchen, The Way Back for US Hegemony 1991 - Stephen Marsh, Berlin Rising 1989 - (Not awarded) 1987 - Ahmed Al-Ansari, Oil's Well 1985 - E. Simon Woolley, Prospects of American Power |
Nominations
Nominations are selected by a panel of economists and public intellectuals, and the winner receives a scholarship of $40,000. (Note: this website is not directly associated with the Greenback Letters essay competition, nor the members of its nominations panel.) |