To read the winning essays [click here]
Ross
Parish Essay Competition 2008
Does liberty lead to decadence?
1st
Prize: $1,500
2nd Prize: $1,000
3rd Prize: $500
Congratulations to our 2008 winners:
Ben O'Neill , First prize ($1500) [download PDF file]
Misha Saloukvadze , Second Prize ($1000) [download PDF file]
No third prize was awarded, however the judges did award an Encouragement Award to 13 year old Kedar Abhyankar.
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Professor
Ross Parish (1929 - 2001) was one of the longest serving members of the
CIS Council of Academic Advisors and Research Director for several years.
Ross studied at Sydney University and then at the University of Chicago
where he was taught by Milton Friedman, Arnold Harberger and D. Gale Johnson.
He returned to the University of Sydney to lecture in Agricultural Economics
and during that time wrote several important papers on pricing policies
for the dairy and wool industries. He later became Professor of Economics
at the University of New England, and then worked overseas with the UN
Food and Agriculture Agency, at Oxford and Stanford and with the World
Bank before returning to a chair in the Department of Economics at Monash
University. Apart from agricultural economics, Ross wrote on a wide range
of topics such as voting systems, non-price rationing mechanisms, education,
and transition economies. He was convinced of the power of freely functioning
markets to promote human welfare by creating incentives for producers
to strive to satisfy the idiosyncratic demands of people.