In accepting his award, Professor O’Rourke notes, ‘I am very honoured to be receiving this prize in memory of Alice Effie Murray. She was not only the first woman to receive a degree from the LSE, but the first serious economic historian of Ireland, beating George O’Brien to the prize by some fifteen years. I am particularly pleased to be giving a talk in her honour since she was among other things a historian of trade and trade policy, and so throughout my career I have been following in her footsteps. I look forward to speaking in February about what history has to tell us about today’s dramatic trade policy landscape.‘