Entries are invited for the best piece of writing in the year 2008 of around 3000 words (published or written specially) on an important real world economic issue meriting wide attention among business economists.The annual prize was instituted in 2000 in memory of the late Tad Rybczynski, an eminent economist and former Chairman of the Society.

£3000 Prize 
The Certificate and Prize will be presented by the SBE President and Chairman at the Society’s Annual Dinner in February 2009, and the winning entry will be published in the Society’s Journal.

Closing date: 8 December 2008

To enter, please complete the form below.

Winners of the 2007 Rybczynski Prize
The Rybczynski Prize for the best piece of business economics writing in 2007 was awarded to four authors who jointly offered a considered perspective on inflationary prospects. Marco Annunziata, Tullia Bucco, Davide Stroppa and Marco Valli of UniCredit Global Research won this year's price for their essay 'Global Inflation - the Ghost in the Machine?' which explored and modelled the concept of inflation as a global phenomenon.

Lord Burns, with Marco Annunziata, Marco Valli, Davide Stroppa, Tullia Bucco - this year's Rybczynski Prize winners - and Bronwyn Curtis

1. The Rybczynski Prize will be £3000, awarded to the author whose entry is judged the best by the Council.

2. The judges will be looking for high quality writing on an important real world economic issue which merits wide attention among business economists. The style of the piece should make it accessible and interesting to an economically literate business audience.

3. The prizes will be decided by the SBE Council with assistance from specialist readers where appropriate. The Council’s decision is final. The Council has the right not to award a prize if it judges that no entry is of adequate standard.

4. The winner of the Rybczynski Prize will be published, or republished with accreditation to the original publisher, in the SBE Journal and if feasible placed on the SBE website.
A synopsis will be published in the SBE Newsletter. The SBE reserves the right to publish the short-listed entries at its discretion.

5. We hope to award the prize at the SBE Annual Dinner on 6 February 2008. The final short listed entries will be invited to the dinner as guests of the SBE.

6. Essays must be in English and in typed or printed form (preferably delivered by email, or 4 hard copies). Photocopies will be accepted.

7. The preferred length is 3000 words with a maximum length of 4000 words. Charts and tables are welcome but extensive use of algebra or footnotes is discouraged.

8. The work may already be published or be original. Specially written shortened versions of longer works will be considered solely on their own merits.

9. Entries should not have been published before 1 January 2008, i.e. this is a prize for work written and/or published in 2007.

10. Only one entry per author is accepted. The winner of last year’s Prize will not be eligible this year (but will be in future years).

12. The form below allows the upload of your entry file document. Alternatively a PDF version of the entry form may be downloaded at the foot of this page.
If you are entering by post: All entries must be accompanied by an entry form.

14. Copyright. On entering the competition the author(s) must give the SBE non-exclusive publication rights to the article submitted including publication by electronic means. The author(s) must also certify that such publication will not knowingly infringe the copyright of any third party including past or future publishers, or that any third party has agreed to publication by the SBE.
The SBE reserves the right to contact any past or future publishers to verify this. When publishing, the SBE will state where the winning article has been or will be published and acknowledge any waiver of copyright by third parties.

15. The Council reserves the right to waive any of the above rules if it deems appropriate.

16. The prize is not open to members of the SBE Council or their close relatives.