Jeff Colgan’s article on OPEC (“The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Limits of OPEC in the Global Oil Market”) was one of 10 winners of the “Albie,” an award recognizing the year”s best writing on political economy.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Jeff Colgan, the Richard Holbrooke Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies, was one of 10 authors to receive an “Albie” for the year”s best writing on political economy. “The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Limits of OPEC in the Global Oil Market,” a piece that appeared in last summer’s edition of International Organization, debunked the notion of OPEC as a successful cartel that can control prices. OPEC, Colgan argued, is not able to control the production levels of its member states.

The Albies honor Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012), an influential and much honored economist at the Institute for Advanced Study for nearly four decades. The 2014 Albies were announced in the Washington Post Dec. 31, 2014, by Daniel Drezner of Tufts University, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.