Distinguished Scholar Award


The Distinguished Scholar Award is presented each year to a member of The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) who has, over a sustained period of years, made a significant contribution to the research and literature of free market economics. Recognizing that ideas which are not communicated are ideas which will have no impact, this award is presented to those among us who are the thinkers and communicators. Those who, by the dint of rigorous research and clear thinking, have communicated to their colleagues in academe and the public in general the fundamental understandings of the market economy and the system of entrepreneurship which is integral to it.


Past Recipients

2025   Kevin Grier

2024   Randall Holcombe

2023   Bart Wilson

2022   Andrew Young

2021   Daniel Houser

2020   Michael Munger

2019   James Otteson

2018   Joshua Hall

2017   Benjamin Powell

2016   Jerry Jordan

2015   Gerald O’Driscoll

2014   Edward Lopez

2013   Christopher Coyne

2012   Douglas Den Uyl and Douglas Rasmussen

2011   Peter Leeson

2010   Tibor Machan

2009   Robert Lawson

2008   Lawrence H. White

2007   Russell Sobel

2006   Gerald Dwyer

2005   Peter Boettke

2004   Thomas Saving

2003   Bruce Yandle

2002   P.J. Hill

2001   Bruce Benson

2000   Richard Vedder

1999   Gordon Brady

1998   Michael Cox

1997   Rick Stroup

1996   Richard McKenzie

1995   James Gwartney

1994   John Soper

1993   Robert Higgs

1992   Dwight Lee and J.R. Clark

1991   Tom DiLorenzo

1990   Gerald Gunderson

1989   William Peterson

1988   Don Diffine

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