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Wolfson Economics Prize

July 2017

  • A speedometer mileage clock with £ signs instead of digits

    Pay-per-mile road tax plan wins £250,000 Wolfson economics prize

    Prizewinner Gergely Raccuja, 27, aims to scrap vehicle tax and fuel duty to help fund road repairs with more eco-friendly scheme collected by insurers

April 2017

  • A car dodging a pothole

    AA boss shortlisted for economics prize for ‘road miles’ allowance plan

    Edmund King hoping his ‘road miles’ allowance idea will win £250,000 award, which sought ideas from around the world on improving roads

October 2016

  • Lord Wolfson

    Lord Wolfson warns against isolationist Brexit course

    Chief executive of Next says UK will be ‘finished’ if government fails to build open and global-facing economy

July 2012

  • Roger Bootle

    Euro exit plan wins Wolfson prize

    Economist Roger Bootle, from Capital Economics, wins £250,000 award to find least disruptive way to break up euro
  • Kipper Williams
    Kipper Williams on the Wolfson prize

  • A banner on a building in Brussels showing a Euro coin

    Wolfson economics prize: the short-listed plans

  • Lord Wolfson,chief executive of Next

    Wolfson Prize shortlist: five ways to break up the eurozone

  • Dutch boy - Wolfson Prize

    Wolfson economics prize: 11-year-old Dutch boy makes surprise entry

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