| Date | Name | Institution |
| 3-Dec-81 | Walter W. Rostow | University of Texas – Austin |
| 22-Apr-82 | David Landes | Harvard University |
| 2-Dec-82 | Eric Jones | LaTrobe University |
| 21-Apr-83 | Evsey Domar | Massachusetts Insitute of Technology |
| 20-Oct-83 | William Parker | Yale University |
| 10-May-84 | Douglas North | Washington University |
| 11-Apr-85 | Donald (Deirdre) McCloskey | University of Iowa |
| 30-Jan-86 | R. Max Hartwell | University of Chicago |
| 10-Apr-86 | Gavin Wright | University of Michigan |
| 16-Apr-87 | Richard Tilly | University of Münster |
| 3-Dec-87 | Moses Abramowitz (cancl’d) | Stanford University |
| 21-Apr-88 | Peter Temin | Massachusetts Insitute of Technology |
| 10-Nov-88 | Roderick Floud | City of London Polytechnic |
| 13-Apr-89 | Lance Davis | Californial Institute of Technology |
| 2-Nov-89 | Peter Lindert | University of California – Davis |
| 26-Apr-90 | Robert Gallman | University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill |
| 1-Nov-90 | Stanley Engerman | Rocherster University |
| 2-May-91 | Sidney Pollard | University of Sheffield |
| 8-Nov-91 | Jonathan Hughes | Northwestern University |
| 4-Jun-92 | Richard Sutch | University of California -Berkeley |
| 19-Nov-92 | Robert Fogel | University of Chicago |
| 29-Mar-93 | Stanley Lebergott | Wesleyan University |
| 14-Oct-93 | Jan DeVries | University of California – Berkeley |
| 9-Mar-94 | Jeff Williamson | Harvard University |
| 10-Nov-94 | Knick Harley | University of Western Ontario |
| 4-May-95 | Gregory Clark | University of California – Davis |
| 26-Oct-95 | Gabriel Tortella | University of Alcalá de Henares |
| 25-Apr-96 | Cormac O’Grada | University College Dublin |
| 24-Oct-96 | Richard Sylla | New York University |
| 3-Apr-97 | Albert Fishlow | Council on Foreign Relations |
| 13-Nov-97 | Richard Easterlin | University of Southern California |
| 14-May-98 | Paul David | Stanford University |
| 3-Dec-98 | Gianni Toniolo | Duke University |
| 29-Apr-99 | Roger Ransom | University of California – Riverside |
| 18-Nov-99 | Larry Neal | University of Illinois |
| 13-Apr-00 | Alan Olmstead | University of California – Davis |
| 19-Oct-00 | Tom Weiss | University of Kansas |
| 10-May-01 | Rick Steckel | Ohio State University |
| 15-Nov-01 | Tommy Bengtsson | University of Lund |
| 16-May-02 | John Wallis | University of Maryland |
| 31-Oct-02 | Ann Carlos | University of Colorado |
| 5-Jun-03 | Fred Bateman | University of Georgia |
| 4-Dec-03 | Naomi Lamoreaux | University of California – Los Angeles |
| 1-Apr-04 | Avner Greif | Stanford University |
| 18-Nov-04 | Alex Field | Santa Clara University |
| 14-Apr-05 | Don Paterson | University of British Columbia |
| 1-Dec-05 | Robert Margo | Boston University |
| 20-Apr-06 | Gary Saxonhouse | University of Michigan |
| 30-Nov-06 | Jeremy Atack | Vanderbilt University |
| 19-Apr-07 | Claudia Goldin | Harvard University |
| 8-Nov-07 | Sevket Pamuk | Bogazici University |
| 13-Mar-08 | Dan Headrick | Roosevelt University |
| 30-Oct-08 | Lee Alston | University of Colorado |
| 7-May-09 | Tim Guinnane | Yale University |
| 29-Oct-09 | Phil Hoffman | Californial Institute of Technology |
| 15-Apr-10 | John Nye | George Mason University |
| 28-Oct-10 | Douglas Irwin | Dartmouth University |
| 14-Apr-11 | Jean-Laurent Rosenthal | Californial Institute of Technology |
| 17-Nov-11 | Charles Calomiris | Columbia University |
| 3-May-12 | Gary Libecap | University of California-Santa Barbara |
| 8-Nov-12 | Hugh Rockoff (cancl’d) | Rutgers University |
| 2-May-13 | Ken Pomerantz | University of Chicago |
| 8-May-14 | James Robinson | Harvard University |
| 28-May-15 | Hugh Rockoff | Rutgers University |
| 28-Apr-16 | George Alter | University of Michigan |
| 29-Sep-16 | Jochim Voth | University of Zurich |
| 1-Jun-17 | Price Fishback | University of Arizona |
| 5-Oct-17 | Werner Troesken | University of Pittsburgh |
| 24-May-18 | Rick Hornbeck | University of Chicago |
| 11-Oct-18 | Anne McCants | Massachusetts Insitute of Technology |
| 9-May-19 | William Collins | Vanderbilt University |