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The Fraser Institute hosts an annual Student Essay Contest to promote student participation in economic discourse on current events and public policy. This contest affords winning students the opportunity to have their work peer-reviewed and published early on in their academic career. In addition, they offer exciting cash prizes for the top five winning submissions.
Opportunity Details
2025 Student Essay Contest - "What would the Essential Scholars say about Canadian economic prosperity today?"
With previous years of inflation and economic uncertainty, the topic of Canadian economic prosperity continues to be a daily conversation. Issues of Canada's economic standing compared to other OECD countries, looming trade disputes, monetary policy and continuous reports of the economy being stuck reveal the obstacles faced in pursuing economic prosperity.
Consider what insights the Essential Scholars series offer on fostering policies that support Canadian economic prosperity? Relying on the ideas of one of their Essential Scholars, construct an essay that describes a scholar's response, explanation or rebuttal to a policy on Canadian economic prosperity. You can use a scholar's economic theory to examine a current economic policy, propose potential policies that a scholar would have put forward, or suggest how certain existing policies would have been adapted by a particular Essential Scholar.
The following prizes will be given across the categories: High School, Undergraduate, and Graduate students.
Essay Requirements
- Essays must be between 1,000-1,500 words (not including references).
- Introductory cover page that includes name of the author(s), mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address.
- Entries must include references cited from academic sources. Any academically acceptable referencing style may be used.
- Entry must be a single document, the header of each page of the essay must include the author's full name and page number.
- Entries will be judged on originality, clear expression of ideas, the ability to empirically support their argument and understanding competitive markets and/or the impact of government intervention.
- Submitted in PDF format.
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