The Executive Board of the AEHE pays tribute to and remembers the important contribution made by Felipe Ruiz Martín to the social and economic history awarding the Felipe Ruiz Martin Prize for an outstanding paper on economic history published by its members in the national economic history journals. The award will serve the scientific excellence and relevant contribution in the fields of economic history and the history of the economic thought. Also, the prize aims to recognize the standard of the main specialized journals edited by Spanish academic institutions.

Winner of the FELIPE RUIZ MARTÍN AWARDS 2009

Title: Anthropometry and standard of living in rural Madrid, 1837-1915
Abstract: This article deals with the heights of the cohorts born between 1837 and 1915 in the rural areas surrounding Madrid. Important differences across regions are found at the beginning of the period considered. Those differences started to fade from mid nineteenth century in coincidence with the building of the railways network. Available evidence shows that Madrid City did not suffer any urban penalty in the nutritional status of its population during 1837-1867. The body Mass Index, calculated from the conscription of 1912, clearly reflects a recent correct nutrition for the modern standards, at least in terms of calories, that contrasts with the persistence of relatively low heights.

The AEHE wishes to congratulate the winner and express its appreciation to all those who contributed to the nomination process.

Winner of Felipe Ruiz Martin Prize 2008: Pere Pascual Domenech

Pere Pascual

The AEHE gives the Ruiz Martín Prize 2008 for the best paper published in a national Economic History journal to Pere Pascual Doménech, “La industria del cobre en España. 1, de 1900 a 1975”, Revista de Historia Industrial, 37, pp. 57-83.

The winner is a professor of History and Economic Institutions, Universitat of Barcelona:
See CV.

Revista de Historia Industrial: http://www.ub.edu/rhi


Abstract:
This article concerns the development of copper metallurgy in Spain during the twentieth century. It precises changes in the foreign trade of ore, copper, concentrates and scrap between 1851 and 1980 and shows that Spain spends from being a major exporter of copper and copper concentrates, during the nineteenth century, to depend on increased net imports of concentrates, copper, and scrap throughout the twentieth century. Moreover, it shows that this was due to the increase of domestic demand, which in turn led to the emergence -under high tariff protection- of copper and its alloys industry. Details on its evolution, location and productive capacity achieved in 1970 are reported. Finally, the author describes both the policy of the sector at the end of Franco´s regime (with López de Letona at the Ministry of Industry) in order to increase the productivity and meet the challenge of Spain's accession to the EEC, and the failure of this first conversion attempt.

The AEHE wishes to congratulate the winner and express its appreciation to all those who contributed to the nomination process.

• Ramon Carande Prize
• Jaume Vicens Vives Prize
• Docentia Prize
  
• Ruiz Martín Prize
  
• Earl J. Hamilton Prize
  
• Outstanding Academic Achievement Prize
• Eugenio Larruga Prize