Abstract
Omicron Delta Epsilon was established in 1963 as a result of a merger of two honor societies: Omicron Delta Gamma (also known as The Order of Artus), founded in 1915 by Professor John R. Commons at the University of Wisconsin and Professor Frank W. Taussig at Harvard University; and Omicron Chi Epsilon, founded in 1956 by Professor Alan A. Brown when he was a student at the City College of New York. The John R. Commons Award, established in memory of Professor Commons, is awarded biennially to an outstanding economist in recognition of academic achievements and for service both to the economics profession and to Omicron Delta Epsilon.
The 2020 John R. Commons Award recipient is:
Previous recipients:
Evsey D. Domar of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965 Arthur Smithies of Harvard University, 1967 Gerhard Tintner of the University of Southern California, 1969 Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago, 1971 Kenneth J. Arrow of Harvard University, 1973 Robert Solow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975 William S. Baumol of Princeton and New York Universities, 1977 Abram Bergson of Harvard University, 1979 Arnold Zellner of the University of Chicago, 1981 Dale Jorgenson of Harvard University, 1983 Kenneth E. Boulding of the University of Colorado, 1985 Gary Becker of the University of Chicago, 1987 Martin Feldstein of the National Bureau of Economics Research, 1989 Douglass C. North of Washington University, 1991 Robert Eisner of Northwestern University, 1993 Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University, 1995 Walter Adams of Trinity University (Texas) and Michigan State University, 1997 Paul A. Samuelson of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999 Victor R. Fuchs of Stanford, University, 2001 Irma Adleman of University of California, Berkeley, 2003 Benjamin Friedman of Harvard University, 2005 Rachel McCulloch of Brandeis University, 2007 Claudia Goldin of Harvard University, 2009 Peter Diamond of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011 Michael Szenberg of Pace University, 2012 Daniel S. Hamermesh, University of Texas at Austin, 2014 Paul Romer of New York University, 2016 David Colander of Middlebury College, 2018