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Books by APEE Award Winners

APEE is pleased to honor our APEE Award winners by recommending these books.

Bruce L. Benson (Adam Smith Award, 2006; Distinguished Scholar Award, 2001)

• The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State
• To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice (Political Economy of the Austrian School Series)

Peter Thiel (Herman W. Lay Memorial Award, 2006)

• The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus

Gerald P. Dwyer (Distinguished Scholar Award, 2006)

• Monetary Policy and Taiwan's Economy
• The Stock Market: Bubbles, Volatility, and Chaos

Peter Boettke (Distinguished Scholar Award, 2005)

• Economic Way of Thinking, The (11th Edition)
• The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: the Formative Years, 1918-1928
• Why Perestroika Failed; The Politics and Economics of Socialist Transformation
• The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics

James D. Gwartney (Adam Smith Award, 2004; Distinguished Scholar Award, 1995)

• Economics: Private & Public Choice, 11th Edition
• Common Sense Economics : What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity
• Economic Freedom of the World, 2005 : Annual Report (Economic Freedom of the World)

Sir John Templeton (Herman W. Lay Memorial Award, 2004)

• Wisdom from World Religions: Pathways Toward Heaven on Earth
• Golden Nuggets from Sir John Templeton
• Spritual Investments: Wall Street Wisdom From The Career Of Sir John Templeton

Michael A. Walker (Thomas Jefferson Award, 2004)

• Freedom, Democracy, and Economic Welfare: Proceedings of an International Symposium

Thomas Saving (Distinguished Scholar Award, 2004)

• Inflation Causes and Cures (Series on public issues)

Richard A. Epstein (Adam Smith Award, 2003)

• Simple Rules for a Complex World
• Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain
• Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty With the Common Good

Edward H. Crane (Thomas Jefferson Award, 2003)

• Cato Handbook on Policy, 2005 (Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations)
• Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century

Bruce Yandle (Distinguished Scholar Award, 2003)

• Land Rights
• The Political Limits of Environmental Regulation : Tracking the Unicorn
• Agricultural Policy and the Environment (Political Economy Forum (Paperback))
• The Market Meets the Environment

Hernando de Soto (Adam Smith Award, 2002)

• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
• The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism

P.J. Hill (Distinguished Scholar Award, 2002)

• Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism
• Who Owns the Environment?
• The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier

Harold Demsetz (Adam Smith Award, 2001)

• The Economics of the Business Firm : Seven Critical Commentaries

Douglas H. Ginsburg (Thomas Jefferson Award, 2001)

• Regulation of the Electronic Mass Media: Law and Policy for Radio, Television, Cable and the New Video Technologies (American Casebook Series)

J. Wilson Mixon (Ken-Aronoff Service Award, 2001)

• Private Means, Public Ends: Voluntarism Vs. Coercion

Armen A. Alchian (Adam Smith Award, 2000)

• University economics;: Elements of inquiry

Richard K. Vedder (Distinguished Scholar Award, 2000)

• Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much
• Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
• The American economy in historical perspective

Robert Formaini (Ken-Aronoff Service Award, 2000)

• The Myth of Scientific Public Policy (Studies in Philosophy & Policy, No 13)

Allan H. Meltzer (Adam Smith Award, 1999)

• A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913-1951
• Keynes's Monetary Theory : A Different Interpretation

Gordon Brady (Distinguished Scholar Award, 1999)

• Government Failure : A Primer in Public Choice

Robert J. Barro (Adam Smith Award, 1998)

• Getting It Right: Markets and Choices in a Free Society
• Economic Growth : Second Edition

Senator Phil Gramm (Adam Smith Award, 1987; Thomas Jefferson Award, 1998)

• The role of government in a free society: A collection of speeches and articles

Michael Cox (Distinguished Scholar Award, 1998)

• Myths of Rich & Poor: Why We're Better Off Than We Think

Richard Stroup (Distinguished Scholar Award, 1997)

• Economics: Private & Public Choice, 11th Edition
• Common Sense Economics : What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity
• Cutting Green Tape: Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation, and the Law

Douglass C. North (Adam Smith Award, 1996)

• Economics of Public Issues, The (14th Edition) (HarperCollins Series in Economics)
• Understanding the Process of Economic Change (Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
• Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
• The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History

Richard McKenzie (Distinguished Scholar Award, 1996) & Dwight Lee (Kent-Aronoff Service Award, 1997; Distinguished Scholar Award, 1992)

• Managing through Incentives : How to Develop a More Collaborative, Productive, and Profitable Organization
• Getting Rich In America : Eight Simple Rules for Building a Fortune--And a Satisfying Life
• Quicksilver Capital: How the Rapid Movement of Wealth Has Changed the World
• Failure and Progress: The Bright Side of the Dismal Science

Vernon L. Smith (Adam Smith Award, 1995)

• Bargaining and Market Behavior : Essays in Experimental Economics
• Experimental Economics : How We Can Build Better Financial Markets

Richard K. Armey (Adam Smith Award, 1994)

• Flat Tax

John C. Soper (Distinguished Scholar Award, 1994)

• The long swing in historical perspective: An interpretive study (Dissertations in American economic history)
• Effective Economic Education in the Schools (Reference & resource series)

Gordon Tullock (Adam Smith Award, 1993)

• The Calculus of Consent : Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
• Government Failure : A Primer in Public Choice
• The Rent-Seeking Society (Tullock, Gordon. Selections)
• Private wants, public means;: An economic analysis of the desirable scope of government

Robert Higgs (Distinguished Scholar Award, 1993)

• Crisis and Leviathan : Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (A Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy Book)
• Resurgence of the Warfare State : The Crisis Since 9/11
• Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society

Charles Murray (Adam Smith Award, 1992)

• What It Means to Be a Libertarian
• Bell Curve : Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book)
• Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980

J.R. Clark (Distinguished Scholar Award, 1992; Kent-Aronoff Service Award, 1993)

• Essentials of Economics

James M. Buchanan (Adam Smith Award, 1991)

• The Calculus of Consent : Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
• The Power to Tax : Analytic Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution
• The Limits of Liberty : Between Anarchy and Leviathan
• What Should Economists Do?
• Democracy in Deficit : The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes

Tom DiLorenzo (Distinguished Scholar Award, 1991)

• How Capitalism Saved America : The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present
• The Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

Malcom S. Forbes, Jr. (Adam Smith Award, 1990)

• Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS

W. Edwards Deming (Adam Smith Award, 1990)

• Out of the Crisis
• The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education - 2nd Edition

Gerald Gunderson (Distinguished Scholar Award, 1990)

• The Wealth Creators: An Entrepreneurial History of the United States
• A new economic history of America

Walter Williams (Adam Smith Award, 1989)

• More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well (Hoover Institution Press Publication ; No. 453)
• Do the Right Thing: The People's Economist Speaks (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
• The State Against Blacks
• South Africa's War Against Capitalism:

William Niskanen (Adam Smith Award, 1988)

• Bureaucracy and Public Economics (The John Locke Series)

Murray Weidenbaum (Adam Smith Award, 1986)

• Business and Government in the Global Marketplace, Seventh Edition
• One-Armed Economist: On the Intersection of Business and Government

James C. Miller III (Adam Smith Award, 1985)

• Monopoly Politics