Adam Smith Award

The Adam Smith Award is the highest honor bestowed by The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE). 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 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations (1776). 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.

Past Recipients