PRIZE: Jean Stengers Prize 2023-2025 to Dave DE RUYSSCHER (Brussels: Académie Royale, 22 MAY 2026)

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Prof. Dr. Dave De ruysscher has been awarded the Jean Stengers Prize of the Académie Royale de Belgique for the triennial period 2023–2025. 

He received this distinction in recognition of his study A Political Economy Imparted: Trade, Law, and Institutions in Antwerp c. 1400–1680, a work that sheds new light on the interplay between legal frameworks and economic development in the early modern Low Countries. 

Our warmest congratulations to the laureate!

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