Shortlist is announced for RES Essay Competition 2008

The final shortlisted entrants for the 2008 Royal Economic Society Young Economist of the Year 2008 were announced this evening.

The panel of judges met overnight for a team supper on Wednesday before convening early today for a full day of marking and deliberation. Each of the near four hundred entries was read through during the morning session and in most cases, each essay was reviewed by at least two people.

As predicted, a sizeable number of the essays focused on environmental issues, but in the end, a very broad range of topics found their way through the judging process. By mid afternoon the judges were engaged in detailed scrutiny of thirty essays that had reached the highly commended stage and decisions thereafter on the final shortlist were very difficult.

Congratulations to the following students who have had their essays selected for final judging. (Details of their essay topics are included)

Garth Lund, King Edward V1 School Southampton - A tax on meat
Hugo Rayne, Langley School Norwich - Investment in sport
Kingston Tam, Eton College - Free Trade
Lim Shi Ru, Anglo-Chinese School Singapore - Micro finance
Marshall Blundell, Eton College - Feed-in-tariffs
Myles Kirby, Sussex Downs College Lewes - Economics of happiness
Promit Anwar, Queen Elizabeths School Barnet - A global banknote
Przemyslaw Pawel Gotfryd, Stoneyhurst College - Currency transactions tax
Rosemary-Anne E Burden, Withington Girls School Manchester - Love is a game (theory)
Siddharth Viswanath, St Olaves Grammar School Bromley - Economics of mass-collaboration
Toby Leston, Charterhouse School - De-materialisation

Essays submitted by the following students were highly commended by the judging panel - our warmest congratulations to you too. All of these essays reached the final thirty.

Amar Shanghavi (Kings Edward’s School Birmingham)
Ang Li (Charterhouse)
Arthur Bingqian MA (City of London School)
Gaurav Sri Vastava (Ashby School)
George McCosh (Eton College)
Graeme Parker (Merchant Taylors School Crosby)
Harriet Wheeler (Walthamastow Hall)
James Snowden (Eton College)
Lawrence Koo (Eton College)
Maxi Davies (Eton College)
Nguyen Huu Anh (Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh)             
Oliver Khakwani (Eton College)
Paul Lanigan (Tonbridge School)
Samuel Jackson (Arnold School, Blackpool)
Shaun Collins (Eton College)
Sophie Billington (Stratford Girls Grammar School)
Vivek Dasani (Merchant Taylors School, Northwood)
Yash Romy Mehta (Charterhouse)
Peter Zavakopoulos (HAEF IB Dept Psychico College)

Thank you to everyone else who entered the 2008 competition. The essays were a real pleasure to read and they showed a deep enthusiasm for economics and applying ideas to real world policy problems. We will be writing to the schools and colleges of those students whose entries were either highly commended or made it through to the final!

The final judging takes place in a few weeks time. First details of the eventual winners will be here on the blog.

Finally, a word of thanks to the teacher judging panel who put in a tremendous effort to read, assess, compare and contrast the substantial number of entries:

- Penny Brooks (City of London Freemans)
- Nicki King (Radley)
- Jen Stimson (Colchester RGS)
- Sarah Leonard (Westminster)
- Lynne Wooliscroft (Nottingham Girls)
- Tom White (Norwich Girls)
- Andy Hunting (Uppingham)
- Andrew Ireson (Oundle)
- Mo Tanweer (Merchant Taylors)
- Mark Jewell (Radley)
- Matt Bentley (Woldingham)
- James Stenning (Highgate)

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