The Centro di Ricerche e Documentazione “Piero Sraffa”, in accordance with the wishes of the family and with its financial support, establishes for the second year a Prize in memory of Pierangelo Garegnani of the amount of € 3,000 (before tax), aimed at young scholars who are engaged or plan to engage in research in economic analysis along the lines of the work of Pierangelo Garegnani.
The Prize is awarded to researchers in the field of Economics who are attending a PhD course, or have defended since 2011 their PhD thesis, in Italian or foreign Universities.
The applications must be submitted no later than May 31st, 2015, either in electronic version or in paper, to:
Centro di Ricerche e Documentazione “Piero Sraffa”
centro.sraffa@uniroma3.it
Via Silvio D’Amico, 77
00145 Rome
The application must be accompanied by the following documents:
– curriculum vitae;
– copy of the doctoral thesis, in its final or underway version, with an abstract of no more than 1,000 words; in case a draft of the doctoral thesis has not yet been prepared at the date of the application, copy of the graduate thesis, with an abstract of no more than 1,000 words;
– an outline of no more than 2,000 words of the research the applicant intends to carry out (including the planned contents of her/his doctoral thesis, in case a draft of the latter has not been attached to the application).
The application and the attached documents must be written either in English or in Italian. If the language of the doctoral or graduate thesis is neither of them, an outline (6,000-9,000 words) of the thesis in English or Italian must be attached to the application.
The Prize will be awarded by June 30th, 2015. The decision shall be taken by a committee of three members, appointed jointly by the Board of Directors of Centro Sraffa and the Family of Pierangelo Garegnani. The members of the Committee will be preferably chosen among scholars belonging to academic institutions in which Pierangelo Garegnani carried out his research and teaching activities.
Mario Cedrini