The REPE Best Paper Award
The REPE prize is awarded annually to the best paper in the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy. This award is jointly sponsored by EAEPE and Springer-Nature and comes with a financial appreciation of 500 EUR, sponsored by EAEPE, and a voucher for a free Springer book sponsored by Springer Nature.
2025:Constantin Brissaud and Samira Guennif
The committee honored Constantin Brissaud for his paper “Accounting for healthcare capitalism. The OECD numbers and the international field of health systems reform (1972-2001)” and Samira Guennif for her paper on “What financialisation is doing to access to healthcare: price and value of medicines in financial capitalism“.
2024: Laura Porak & Rouven Reinke and Keun Lee & Djun Kil Kim
The committee honored Laura Porak and Rouven Reinke for their paper “The contribution of qualitative methods to economic research in an era of polycrisis” and Keun Lee and Djun Kil Kim for their paper on “Compressed development, decompression, and diverging convergence in South Korea: which varieties of capitalism in contemporary Korea?“.
2023: John Mathews, Elizabeth Thurbon, Sung-Young Kim and Hao Tan
The best paper published in REPE was “Gone with the wind: how state power and industrial policy in the offshore wind power sector are blowing away the obstacles to East Asia’s green energy transition“, authored by John Mathews, Elizabeth Thurbon, Sung-Young Kim and Hao Tan.
2022: Tristan Auvray, Cédric Durand, Joel Rabinovich & Cecilia Rikap and Photis Lysandrou & Taimaz Ranjbaran
The committee honored Tristan Auvray, Cédric Durand, Joel Rabinovich and Cecilia Rikap for their paper “Corporate financialization’s conservation and transformation: from Mark I to Mark II” as well as Photis Lysandrou and Taimaz Ranjbaran for their paper “Financialisation reinforced: the dual legacy of the covid pandemic“.
2021: Steffen S. Bettin
Steffen S. Bettin has received the REPE annual Best-Paper Award 2020/2021 for his article Electricity infrastructures and innovation in the next phase of energy transition –amendments to the technology innovation system framework. The article appeared in the REPE Vol. 1, No. 3, Special Issue Work, Environment, and Planetary-scale Computation in Political-Economic Evolution, guest-edited by K. Gruszka, M. Scholz-Waeckerle, and E. Aigner.
