Donner Prize names winner

TORONTO — Michael J. Trebilcock, a professor of law and economics at the University of Toronto, has won this year’s $50,000 Donner Prize.

The annual award is given to the best public policy book written by a Canadian, this year chosen from 80 submissions.

Trebilcock was awarded the prize for Dealing With Losers: The Political Economy of Policy Transitions, published by Oxford University Press. The prize jury said the book addresses an issue ubiquitous across the policy landscape: when and how to mitigate the costs associated with policy changes.