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
Who
can enter?
People
under the age of 30. You can be students or in the
workforce. One entry per person
is allowed. You are not eligible if you have been awarded a prize in previous years. Entrants must be residents of Australia, New Zealand or the
Pacific region.
How
long should the essay be?
We
would like the essay to be no longer than 2000 words excluding footnotes.
What
style is best?
The essay will be judged
by its clarity, rigour, originality and writing ability. You may write
about the topic from any perspective you are interested in. For example
it may be economic, legal, political or social in its emphasis. The essay
should be serious in content, tone and style but not overly technical.
Papers may be footnoted, although this is not essential.
How
will the essays be judged?
All essays will initially
be read by CIS staff members. The finalists will be read by two members
of the CIS Academic Advisory Council. The Centre for Independent Studies
reserves the right to not award prizes.
Entry
Deadline:
All entries must be
emailed or postmarked by 31 October , 2008
How
to submit the entry?
Please complete the entry form and attach to the essay. [Click
here]
for entry form.
The essay may either
be emailed to jlindsay@cis.org.au
or posted to:
Ross Parish Essay Competition
The Centre for Independent Studies
PO Box 92
St Leonards
NSW 1590
We would like the essay to be single spaced and 12 point font The essay should be in Microsoft Word. Word Perfect or Adobe Acrobat PDF format. If you post the essay please include a disk with the essay in one of the above formats. If this is difficult, please contact Jenny Lindsay to discuss.
Other
conditions:
Winners will be notified
and announced on our website in early November, 2008. Submissions will not
be returned. Winning essays become the property of The Centre for Independent
Studies and may be published first by the CIS. The essays may then be
republished elsewhere with permission.
Contact
Details:
Enquiries and essays
directed to Jenny at: (02) 9438 4377 or email jlindsay@cis.org.au
Congratulations to our 2007 winners:
Stephen Whittington, First prize ($1500) [download PDF file]
Kim Anderson, Second Prize ($1000) [download PDF file]
The judges decided not to award a third prize.
To visit the Liberty & Society homepage [click here]
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.