The Association of Private Enterprise Education





	Awards

The Adam Smith Award

The Adam Smith Award is the highest honor bestowed by The Association of Private Enterprise Education. It is given to recognize an individual who has made a sustained and lasting contribution to the perpetuation of the ideals of a free market economy as first laid out in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. The recipient of this award must be an individual who has acquired an international reputation as an eloquent scholar and advocate of free enterprise and the system of entrepreneurship which underlies it. In searching for a recipient, APEE looks for someone who through their writing, speaking, and professional life, has focused attention upon the fundamental principles which are the bulwark of our organization.

Leonard Liggio(left) accepts the Adam Smith
Award from 2007 APEE President Edward Stringham.

Past Recipients

2007 Leonard Liggio
2006 Bruce Benson (picture)
2005 Manuel F. Ayau (picture)
2004 James D. Gwartney
2003 Richard A. Epstein
2002 Hernando de Soto
2001 Harold Demsetz
2000 Armen A. Alchian
1999 Allan H. Meltzer
1998 Robert J. Barro
1997 Alan Greenspan
1996 Douglass C. North
1995 Vernon L. Smith
1994 Richard K. Armey
1993 Gordon Tullock
1992 Charles Murray
1991 James M. Buchanan
1990 Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr . & W. Edwards Deming
1989 Walter Williams
1988 William A. Niskanen
1987 Senator Phil Gramm
1986 Murray Weidenbaum
1985 James C. Miller III
1984 Conrad Maier