The SAJE’s (South African Journal of Economics) Management Committee annually awards the J.J.I. Middleton award to the author of the best first paper published in the Journal during that year. 

Mr Middleton was a staunch and committed supporter of the Society and everything it stood for.  Born in Scotland, he began his career as a banker in England in 1889.  Subsequently, he joined the Transvaal Colonial Service and later the Treasury of the Union of South Africa, becoming the Under-Secretary for Finance from 1918 to 1931.  Mr Middleton also acted as Treasurer of the Economic Society for many years and generously made several capital donations to the Society for prizes and awards to meritorious members.  He also donated the die of the emblem which the Society has been using ever since.

The late Mr Middleton hoped in this way to encourage promising young economists to publish in their respective fields.  Initially it took the form of a stipendum to the value of R50, but inflation quickly eroded the purchasing power to almost nothing. Later on the award became a medal instead, which bears the emblem of the Society on the one side, and the name of the candidate, with a suitable inscription in Latin, on the other.

  2005

The Council of the Economic Society of South Africa is pleased to announce the award of the 2005 JJI Middleton medal for the best first article published in the SAJE  (72:5 to 73:3) to M Keswell for his paper entitled “Non-linear earnings dynamics in post-apartheid South Africa”, SAJE 72:5.  

Previous winners

2004

·         Keller, Sonja. Household Formation, Poverty and Unemployment - the Case of Rural Households in South Africa. SAJE 72:3

and

·         Swanepoel, Jan A. The monetary-fiscal policy mix in South Africa. SAJE 72:4

2003

·         Wittenberg, M. Job Search in South Africa: A nonparametric analysis, published in the December 2002 vol. 70:8 issue.

2001

• Martine Mariotti. An Examination of the Impact of Economic Policy on long-run Economic Growth: An application of a VECM structure to a middle-income context, published in the March 2002 vol. 70:4 Conference issue.

2000

·         Edwards, L. An econometric evaluation of academic development programmes in Economics, published Sept 2000 issue.

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