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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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ross_parishProfessor 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.